New Balance 9060 Blue Oasis Real Pink

Released on 22 May 2024 and part of New Balance's 9060 line. This release has a leather upper in Blue Oasis/Real Pink. Blue Oasis with Real Pink is the loudest thing you can do to a 9060, and the shape is strange enough to carry it. The 9060 warps the proportions of the 99x running family into something sculpted and deliberately unbalanced, so a two colour palette this bright reads as a design decision rather than as decoration. Consider where the company came from: when Jim Davis bought New Balance in 1972 at twenty eight, it had six employees making about thirty pairs a day, sold mostly by mail order. Nothing about that origin predicts a shoe like this, which is why the modern brand's willingness to be bold is worth noticing.