Metalwood Studio x adidas Gazelle Indoor 'Real Leaf Camo'
Colorway: Core Black/Core Black/Gum 5 · Style code: JR8136 · Release date: August 23, 2024 · Price: $229 · Availability: Available now
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A leaf print rather than the usual abstracted camouflage blotches is what the name points to, and it sits on a black textile upper rather than the suede the Gazelle Indoor normally uses. The pattern is dark on dark, so at a distance the shoe reads as a plain black low-top and the foliage only resolves close up. Core Black covers the base and the trim alike, and a gum bottom supplies the only colour break, which keeps the pair tied to the Indoor's usual warm-soled look.
Metalwood Studio made this one with adidas, and it released on August 23, 2024. Textile rather than suede changes what the shoe can take: a woven upper carries a print properly, which suede cannot, and it holds up to weather better, but it also loses the soft, slightly slouchy shape that suede develops over a season. For a graphic-led pair that is the right trade, since the whole point is that the pattern stays legible rather than disappearing into a worn nap.