Asics Wmns Novablast 'Black Rose Gold'
Colorway: Black/Rose Gold · Style code: 1012B014-001 · Release date: January 7, 2021 · Price: $2682 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics Wmns Novablast 'Black' (1012A584-001) · Asics Wmns Novablast 'Black Digital Grape' (1012A584-004) · ASICS Wmns Novablast 4 'Black Graphite Grey' (1012B510-002) · ASICS Wmns Novablast 5 'Platinum Platinum Black' (1012B980-001) · ASICS Wmns NovaBlast 4 'Black Blue Expanse' (1012B510-003)
ASICS released the Novablast globally in February 2020, and it changed what the brand was known for. The midsole was a tall slab of FlyteFoam Blast (a new high-rebound, low-density material the shoe was built to introduce) over an outsole shaped, in the company's own description, around the idea of a trampoline. The result was the softest and most responsive shoe ASICS had made, at a time when the range was better known for structure than bounce. Reviewers found the first version had problems to match its novelty, chiefly an unstable heel and a forefoot short on cushioning, both of which the second version set about fixing. Black with rose gold is the restrained treatment of a shoe that arrived at retail loud, and it keeps the attention on the sidewall geometry, which is really the whole story of this model.