New Balance 1906r Ganni Egret

Released on 18 August 2023 and part of New Balance's 1906 line. This release has a mesh upper in Egret/Black/Blazing Yellow. This is the 1906R made with GANNI, and the pairing tells you how New Balance builds partnerships. Its collaboration programme runs on designers and independents rather than on mass celebrity, a list that includes Aime Leon Dore, British designer Paul Smith on a 576 in June 2018, and Action Bronson across several models. Egret is the colour name, a soft off white, and applied to the 1906R it strips the shoe back to its structure. The number itself is the founding year, when New Balance began near Boston as the New Balance Arch Support Company making arch supports rather than shoes, so a pale, design led version of it is heritage handed to an outside eye.