ASICS GT 2000 11 Lite-Show 'Geometric Origami'
Colorway: Lime Zest/Lite-Show · Style code: 1011B627-300 · Release date: August 2023 · Price: $1026 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics GT 2000 11 'Lime Zest' (1011B441-300) · Asics GT 2000 11 'Black White' (1011B441-004) · Asics Wmns GT 2000 11 'Nagino' (1012B495-250) · Asics GT 2000 11 'Midnight Red' (1011B441-402) · ASICS GT 2000 11 'Triple Black' (1011B441-005)
Reflective trim is not paint. The material scattered across a shoe like this one is retroreflective, built from tiny glass beads or prismatic facets that send light back toward whatever emitted it rather than bouncing it off at an angle, which is why it flares in a headlight beam and does almost nothing under daylight. That property is the entire point for anyone running before dawn or after work through winter, when a driver's first sight of a runner is usually movement at ankle height. ASICS gathers those builds under a Lite-Show label and applies them across the range. This one goes further than most, working the reflective material into an angular folded graphic on a lime zest base rather than confining it to a heel tab, which makes it the most decorated version of a shoe otherwise sold entirely on function.