New Balance 9060 Linen Burgundy

Part of New Balance's 9060 line. This release has a suede upper in Linen/Burgundy. Linen and burgundy is a strange, good pairing: one is a raw undyed neutral, the other is the deepest wine red in the palette, and putting them together on the 9060 gives the shape a wardrobe quality it does not usually have. The 9060 sits downstream of the 99x line, the brand's premium spine since the 990 launched in 1982 and continued through the 991, 992 and 993, and it exaggerates that vocabulary into something more sculptural. Burgundy is the colour that pulls it furthest from sportswear, since it belongs to knitwear and leather goods rather than to running. The code U9060PSD marks this pair, and the block N does the identifying on the side wall.