Adidas Wmns Yeezy 950 Boot 'Moonrock'
Colorway: Moonrock/Moonrock/Moonrock · Style code: AQ4836 · Release date: October 29, 2015 · Price: $508 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Adidas Wmns Yeezy 950 Boot 'Pirate' (AQ4837)
By late 2015 the adidas partnership Kanye West had signed in December 2013 was two shoes old and already pointed somewhere other than performance footwear. The Boost-soled boot that opened the line in February had established the shape of the thing: tall, unstructured, closer to a work boot than a runner. The 950 removed the remaining sneaker references altogether.
It released on 29 October 2015 in four colorways at once (Peyote, Moonrock, Chocolate and Pirate Black), each holding to a single desaturated tone from collar to sole. The construction is military in its logic rather than its decoration: canvas around the shaft for give, suede at the eyestay where laces pull, a rubberised mudguard wrapping the foot, and a lugged outsole underneath. Moonrock is the greyest of the four, a flat mineral tone that reads differently in canvas than it does in suede, which is most of what gives the shoe its depth.
The boot marked the point where the line stopped being a sneaker collaboration and started behaving like a footwear range with its own categories.