Adidas NMD_R1 'Gore-Tex'
Colorway: Core Black/Core Black/Solar Yellow · Style code: EE6433 · Price: $128 · Availability: Available now
Gore-Tex is a laminated membrane with pores small enough to block liquid water and large enough to pass water vapour, which is how a shoe can be waterproof and still breathe. Building it into this silhouette means the upper is sealed rather than open, a real change for a model whose default construction is knit or mesh chosen specifically for airflow.
That is also where the $180 price comes from: at the time the standard knit build sat around $130, so the membrane accounts for roughly a fifty dollar premium. The colour treatment stays out of the way of the story. Core Black covers the whole upper, and Solar Yellow, a saturated near-fluorescent shade, appears as the single accent, a common pairing on weatherproofed footwear where a bright colour doubles as visibility. Underneath, the full-length Boost midsole and the inserts moulded into its sidewall are unchanged, as is the segmented rubber outsole.