New Balance Wmns 574 'Black Grey White'
Colorway: Black/Grey/White · Style code: W574SKW · Release date: October 16, 2018 · Price: $2232 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: New Balance New Balance Wmns 57/40 'Black Zebra' (W5740APA) · New Balance Wmns 57/40 'Timberwolf Leopard' (W5740APB) · New Balance 57/40 Bandier (Women's) Sneakers (W5740BB) · New Balance Wmns 57/40 'Rose Water' (W5740CC) · New Balance Wmns 57/40 'Tobacco Navy' (W5740CCE)
Greyscale in three steps. Black anchors the shoe, grey fills the space between, and white lifts the base, which gives the upper a gradient running roughly from dark at the top of the foot to light at the ground. There is no risk anywhere in the scheme, and the appeal is exactly that: a shoe carrying this much visual structure does not need colour to hold attention, only enough separation between tones for the panels to stay distinct.
New Balance released the pair on October 16, 2018 at $90 as a women's make-up. The pattern above the sole is the shape the 574 has kept since it was first built from two other 500-series shoes, the cheaper way into the brand's off-road line. Three neutrals is the safest arrangement in the whole catalogue and one of the most durable, because nothing in it belongs to a particular year, and a pair bought in 2018 looks no different now from one released last season.