New Balance 9060 Chrome Blue

Released on 10 April 2024 and part of New Balance's 9060 line. This release has a suede upper in Chrome Blue/Light Chrome Blue/Elemental Blue. There are two New Balances working at once right now. One is the purist project, Made in USA under Aime Leon Dore founder Teddy Santis, who was appointed creative director of that line in April 2021, treating the archive with total seriousness. The other is the 9060, which takes the same 99x source material and deliberately distorts it into something the running division would never have approved. Chrome Blue belongs firmly to the second. Chrome brings a bright reflective surface into a family built on matte greys and suedes, and the blue underneath gives it a cold, synthetic character. It is the archive processed through a filter rather than restored.