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- Upper
- Suede
- Released
- 2023
- Colourway
- Eclipse
- Cushioning
- Abzorb
New Balance 2002R Protection Pack Eclipse
New Balance 2002R Protection Pack Eclipse
- Upper
- Suede
- Released
- 2023
- Colourway
- Eclipse
- Cushioning
- Abzorb
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Released on 1 October 2023 and part of New Balance's 2002R line. This release has a suede upper in Eclipse/Magnet/Black. Eclipse is the darkest reading of the Protection Pack, a treatment that takes the 2002R apart and rebuilds it with its structure showing. The 2002R is a running shape brought into the lifestyle line, panelled and layered by design, and this pack pushes that layering forward as the subject rather than the background. An eclipse palette suits it, dark and total, so the shoe reads as one heavy object rather than as a set of parts. New Balance spent decades making shoes nobody looked at, which is exactly why it can now make one that asks to be examined closely without seeming desperate about it.
Total darkness is the easiest sneaker to place. Recipe one: black cargo trousers, a black hoodie and a technical jacket, a full dark build where the shoe's exposed construction supplies the only detail. Recipe two: dark jeans, a grey knit and a leather jacket, a simpler evening look where the sneaker keeps things from feeling formal. Good for cold weather, city nights, travel and long days on foot, and more resilient in bad conditions than pale colourways. Check your width fitting. Brush the panels dry, wipe smooth surfaces with a barely damp cloth, watch for white scuffing on dark midsoles, and air dry away from heat.
New Balance's design freedom is recent and hard won. The brand's fame came from being ignored, the 990 family turning into the archetypal American dad shoe worn for comfort rather than status, before normcore and then high fashion reclaimed that plainness in the 2010s. Once the archive carried weight, the company started treating it as material. In April 2021 Aime Leon Dore founder Teddy Santis was appointed creative director of Made in USA, formalising the archive as a fashion line, and its collaboration programme has run on designers and independents rather than mass celebrity. A pack like this belongs to that experimental confidence.
In a near total dark colourway, that structure survives only through texture and shadow, and the sculpted sole unit does most of the shape work. The block N sits on the side wall as the house mark, quieter here than in any contrast build. New Balance's cushioning language provides the reference points: ENCAP, a moulded polyurethane rim encapsulating a soft EVA core for structure, durability and low compression set, and ABZORB, a proprietary foam and rubber polymer blend that disperses heel strike impact before it reaches the knees. Width fittings remain available across the line.
- Upper
- Suede
- Released
- 2023
- Colourway
- Eclipse
- Cushioning
- Abzorb
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