Sean Wotherspoon x adidas Gazelle Indoor 'Kaleidoscopic Lens'
Colorway: Ecru Tint/Shadow Navy/Gum · Style code: IG2849 · Release date: May 27, 2023 · Price: $164 · Availability: Available now
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Illustration is the whole idea. Where most Gazelles sell on a colour pairing, this Sean Wotherspoon Indoor is a printed shoe: an off-white Ecru Tint textile upper covered in drawings whose line work and palette borrow from 1970s graphic design, wrapping the quarter, the toe and the tongue. Against that busy ground, the serrated three stripes are cut from plain Shadow Navy suede, which gives the eye somewhere to rest and stops the graphics from turning into noise.
A magenta suede heel tab carries the designer's own logo, the same accent he used on his hemp version, and the shoe sits on a low translucent rubber cupsole. Wotherspoon came out of the vintage clothing trade before he began designing footwear, and the reference points here are consistent with that: old print, old palettes, materials chosen for how they will look aged rather than new. It went out on May 27, 2023 at $140, and the printed upper is the part that will fade first and most visibly.