Asics Wmns GT 2000 11 'Nagino'
Colorway: Mineral Beige/Fawn · Style code: 1012B495-250 · Release date: April 3, 2023 · Price: $2682 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: ASICS Wmns GT 2000 14 GTX 'Black Vanilla' (1012B844-001) · Asics Wmns GT 2000 7 'Baked Pink' (1012A147700) · Asics Wmns GT 2000 10 GTX 'Carrier Grey Red' (1012B103-025) · ASICS Wmns GT-2000 14 GTX 'Black Misty Pine' (1012B844-002) · Asics Wmns GT 2000 7 'Black' (1012A147-003)
Nagino began as apparel. ASICS built the collection around women’s training and movement, and named it by joining two Japanese words: nagi, the stillness of water, and no, being oneself. The stated idea is unhurried movement rather than performance targets, and the design language follows: soft, low-contrast colour and minimal branding.
When the collection extended into footwear, ASICS did not build new shoes for it. It took existing models from the running range (the GT-2000 and the GEL-Kayano among them) and reissued them in limited Nagino colourways. That is what this pair is: a standard GT-2000 11, the generation that moved the line from FlyteFoam to the springier FF Blast while keeping the LITETRUSS structure on the arch side of the midsole, finished in mineral beige and fawn instead of the line’s usual saturated blues and corals.
The shoe underneath is unchanged, which is worth saying plainly: the collection is a palette and a point of view, not a different chassis.