adidas Wmns NMD_R1 'Beam Yellow'
Colorway: Beam Yellow/Beam Yellow/Core Black · Style code: HP9733 · Release date: August 23, 2022 · Price: $74 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: adidas Wmns NMD_R1 'Beam Orange' (IF7816) · adidas Wmns NMD_R1 'Black Beam Orange' (GW9463) · adidas Wmns NMD_R1 'Shadow Red Beam Orange' (HP2822)
Beam Yellow sits at the top end of the adidas colour range, closer to a highlighter than to gold, and this women's pair commits to it: the textile upper, the collar, the welded Three Stripes and the midsole all run the same shade. Core Black is present only at the trim, enough to define the edges without dividing the shoe into panels.
Tonal treatments like this change what a silhouette communicates. With no contrast to read, the lines of the toe box and the depth of the foam become the visible features, and the inserts moulded into the midsole sidewall show up as shadow rather than as a colour break. It arrived in women's sizing on August 23, 2022 at $150, twenty dollars above the plain knit pairs the model ran earlier in its life, which reflects where the line's pricing had moved by then. The heel pull tab and the small tongue Trefoil complete a very short list of details.