adidas Wmns Forum Low 'White Rose Gold'
Colorway: Cloud White/Cloud White/Supplier Colour · Style code: IG0698 · Release date: March 23, 2023 · Price: $1870 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Adidas Wmns Forum Low 'Pastel' (GY9492) · adidas Wmns Forum Low 'White' (GX5061) · adidas Wmns Forum Low 'White Black' (GY9463) · Adidas Wmns Forum Low 'Wonder Taupe' (GZ9475) · Adidas Wmns Forum Low 'White Beige' (GX2174)
Metallic trim is the entire brief. The upper, the ankle strap, the serrated Three Stripes and the cupsole are all Cloud White leather, and the rose gold appears only on the hardware and small branding details, catching light against a surface that otherwise reflects none. It is a jewellery logic applied to a basketball shoe, and it works because the Forum's panels are large and plain enough to act as a setting.
It released on 23 March 2023 at 100 dollars in women's sizing, the standard price for the leather low-top that season. Rose gold has a short shelf life as a trend colour but a long one as a neutral, since it reads as warm metal rather than as a hue, and against white leather it never fights the base. Under the finish the shoe is standard Forum: a strap across the ankle, the overlay that holds it, a perforated toe box and a cupsole whose heel sits slightly raised. On a model adidas has released in white more times than anyone has counted, a metallic detail is a cheap and effective way to make one version distinguishable from the rest.