Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 5 360 'Piedmont Grey'
Colorway: Piedmont Grey/Piedmont Grey · Style code: 1022A135-020 · Price: $317 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 25 'Lemon Shark' (1012A026101) · Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 28 'Platinum' (1012B133-020) · Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 24 'Phantom' (T799N-9016) · Asics Wmns Gel Kayano 25 'Mojave' (1012A026-800) · ASICS Wmns Gel Kayano 31 'Luxe' (1012B821-020)
ASICS introduced this hybrid in 2019 by splitting the difference between two shoes from opposite ends of its catalogue. The upper comes from the GEL-Kayano 5, a late-nineties stability runner whose layered synthetic panelling and stacked overlays had already found a second life on the lifestyle side of the brand. The sole comes from the GEL-Quantum 360, whose selling point is a GEL unit running the whole way around the midsole rather than sitting in discrete pockets at heel and forefoot.
The result is a shoe that reads as an archive silhouette but rides on a platform designed years later. It is sold as sportstyle, not as a performance trainer, and the tooling is what gives it the exaggerated, rounded profile that the original Kayano 5 never had.
Where the debut colourway leaned on the Kayano 5’s original white, black, royal and yellow, this women’s pair goes the other way entirely. Piedmont Grey covers the mesh base, the overlays and the midsole, so the construction has to read through texture and panel edges rather than colour blocking.