adidas NMD_R1 'Wonder White Gum'
Colorway: Wonder White/Cloud White/Gum · Style code: GY6058 · Release date: March 25, 2022 · Price: $97 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: adidas Wmns NMD_R1 'Wonder White' (HQ4248) · adidas Wmns NMD_R1 'Wonder White' (IE9076) · adidas Wmns NMD_R1 'Wonder White' (GX8383) · Adidas NMD_R1 Primeblue 'Wonder White Gum' (GX8375) · adidas Wmns NMD_R1 'White Wonder Quartz' (IE7289)
Wonder White and Cloud White are not the same colour. The first is softer and slightly warm, close to unbleached cotton, and it takes the knit upper; the second is brighter and cleaner and fills the Boost midsole. Stacked on top of each other the difference is small but deliberate, and it is the reason the shoe does not read as one flat white.
The gum outsole is what ties the two together. Translucent amber is warm, so it pulls toward the off-white above rather than fighting it, and it gives the profile a distinct third band at floor level. That trio of tones does all the work, because nothing else is picked out: the Three Stripes are welded on tonally, the inserts moulded into the midsole sidewall stay pale, and branding is limited to a heel pull tab and a small tongue Trefoil. It came out on March 25, 2022, three weeks before the grey version built on the same gum-soled recipe.