adidas UltraBoost 1.0 'City Pack - Taipei'
Colorway: Footwear White/Royal Blue/Core Black · Style code: JS0307 · Release date: June 2024 · Price: $279 · Availability: Available now
City-themed UltraBoosts have been a recurring adidas exercise since the late 2010s, and this Taipei edition continues it in June 2024. White dominates the Primeknit, Royal Blue runs through the midfoot cage and trim, and Core Black anchors the heel and outsole. The blue is bright and saturated rather than navy, which keeps the shoe reading as a summer release rather than a winter one.
Structurally it is the 1.0 pattern adidas returned to in the 2020s after cycling through numbered updates: a knit sock upper, a plastic cage laced through the eyestay to hold the arch, a wrapped heel counter and a full-length Boost midsole. Price was $180, the base tier for the silhouette, so the city naming carried no premium. Taipei joins a long list of cities the line has visited, each version distinguished by palette and small graphic details rather than by any change to the shoe underneath.