Hoka Clifton 9 Coastal Sky

Released on 1 May 2023 and part of Hoka's Clifton 9 line. This release has a knit upper in Coastal Sky/All Aboard. Coastal Sky is a soft, washed blue, and on the ninth Clifton it lands on the generation that a lot of runners still name as their favourite. The Clifton is the shoe that converted people who thought the whole idea was ridiculous. When Hoka arrived in 2009 the industry was chasing minimal and barefoot style shoes, and the brand went the opposite way with midsoles two to three times thicker than normal, a stance the press labelled maximalist. The Clifton is where that argument stopped being theoretical, because it was cushioned and light at the same time, and people who tried it stopped laughing.