Yoshio Kubo x Reebok Club C 85 'Black'
Colorway: Black/White/Black · Style code: FY3038 · Release date: October 9, 2020 · Price: $178 · Availability: Available now
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Yoshio Kubo's Club C 85 collaboration takes the tennis shoe's usual white base and inverts it, running black leather across the upper with white accents at the eyestay and a black outsole underneath. Reebok released the pair October 9, 2020 at $130, keeping the model's perforated toe and stitched paneling under the darker finish.
Where most Club C colourways lean on white or off white leather as their base, this collaboration works almost entirely in black, leaving the white detailing to outline the panels rather than dominate them. The result reads closer to a going out shoe than a court shoe, a shift in mood that a single colour reversal can bring to a shape that has stayed largely unchanged since the 1980s.