Adidas NMD_R1 'Black Pulse Yellow'
Colorway: Core Black/Carbon/Pulse Yellow · Style code: ID4713 · Release date: September 30, 2023 · Price: $445 · Availability: Available now
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By late 2023 this silhouette had run through a long sequence of dark uppers with a single bright accent, and this is one of the last of them. The base pairs Core Black with Carbon, a dark grey sitting barely off black, so the knit upper has internal depth but no obvious colour break. Everything about that half of the shoe is designed to recede.
Pulse Yellow does the opposite. It is applied only to detail areas rather than to any panel, so the colour appears as small marks spread across a dark field, and against a near-black upper even a little of it carries across a room. The underlying build is the one the model kept to the end: a single-piece knit with welded Three Stripes, a sock-like collar, a full-length Boost unit and a segmented rubber outsole. It released September 30, 2023 at $160, matching the other knit pairs of that year.