adidas NMD_R1 V2 'Dazzle Pack - Cloud White'
Colorway: Cloud White/Core Black/Cloud White · Style code: FY2105 · Release date: July 24, 2020 · Price: $175 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Adidas NMD_R1 V2 'Dazzle Pack - Core Black' (FY2104) · Adidas NMD_R1 V2 J 'Dazzle Camo - Black' (FY2107) · Adidas NMD_R1 V2 J 'Dazzle Pack - Cloud White' (FY2108)
Dazzle takes its name from the striped camouflage painted on warships, patterns designed to confuse an observer about a vessel's shape and heading rather than to hide it. The same logic is at work here: black and white bands repeat across the knit upper and continues onto the foam, breaking up the outline of the shoe instead of concealing it.
Carrying the pattern onto the midsole is what makes it work, because stopping at the upper would leave a clean white band that reinstates the shape the stripes are trying to disrupt. Branding appears in both English and Japanese lettering, including the brand's long-form descriptive phrase set on the webbing heel tab and on the welded quarter-panel overlay. This was one of two shoes in the pack, and it released on July 24, 2020 at $140. The V2 build underneath carries the linked midsole inserts that mark the generation.