Adidas Gazelle Triple Black

Released on 8 February 2022 and part of adidas's Gazelle line. This release has a nubuck upper in Core Black/Core Black/Core Black. Triple black is the Gazelle stripped of its own signalling. On most Gazelles the Three Stripes are the shoe, a hard contrast band that tells you the brand from across a road, and here they are the same colour as everything else. What is left is pure outline: the slim waist, the low collar, the flat sole, the long toe. That is a real test of a silhouette, and the Gazelle passes it, which is why the blackout version keeps returning. It still carries the Trefoil, the three leaves over three stripes designed in 1971 and launched for the 1972 Munich Olympics, which now marks adidas Originals and heritage product. Style code CQ2809.