adidas Would possibly Drop Its YEEZY-Free 350 Sneakers in 2023

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Mere days after adidas confirmed that it was ending its partnership with Kanye “Ye” West and his YEEZY model over his anti-Semitism (and extra), its executives introduced “fascinating plans” for the YEEZY sneaker designs that adidas nonetheless owns. Fairly obscure stuff however we is perhaps getting a bit extra readability of what adidas has in thoughts.

YEEZY sneakers are such a significant a part of adidas’ backside line that it held a sudden earnings name on November 9 to publicly regulate its anticipated revenue for 2022 and restate its possession of sure YEEZY sneakers.

“We personal all of the IP, we personal all of the designs, we personal all of the variations and new colorways, so it is our IP,” Hurt Ohlmeyer, adidas’ CFO stated. “It is our product.”

In late December, Sneaker leakers on social media revealed what they declare to be a primary have a look at adidas’ YEEZY-free BOOST 350 footwear, which appears to be like very very similar to the unique YEEZY BOOST 350s.

Purportedly swiped from adidas’ back-end, the leaked picture exhibits a gray (“granite,” in colorway phrases) in-line 350 with the standard “SPLY-350” textual content knitted into the Primeknit higher and V2’s ridged sole unit. Very acquainted to everybody who’s ever seen a 350 earlier than (which might be everybody on the planet at this level) however virtually indistinguishable from the unique YEEZY sneaker.

The leakers promise a full-size run in child, youngsters, and grownup sizes alike — a standard rollout for brand new YEEZY sneaker colorways pre-YEEZY break up — and a surprisingly shut January 2023 launch date. Grownup sizes are purportedly priced at $230 which, once more, was typical for adidas’ YEEZY drops.

Highsnobiety has reached out to adidas to touch upon rumors of the in-line 350 sneakers.

For now, it is all unconfirmed however hardly unbelievable. YEEZY sneakers had been, and proceed to be, considered one of adidas’ hottest merchandise, worn by mainly everybody in all places. Critically, look down whereas strolling via any metropolis throughout the globe and you will see just a few, particularly the 350.

At the same time as not too long ago as a yr in the past, YEEZY footwear had been topping practically all sneaker search outcomes, not even only for adidas.

The much less stated about Ye these days, the higher. Following a month of platforming bigotry and bigots, his remaining defenders are stans unwilling to simply accept that their idol might ever do any improper and white supremacists, which says a lot.

Nonetheless, for adidas, the sneakers that after bore YEEZY’s identify are invaluable. By reintroducing these footwear with out Ye or his model connected, adidas clearly hopes to recapture the huge swath of the inhabitants that purchased them in droves proper up till YEEZY Provide was shut down.

And that inhabitants does not essentially embody sneakerheads, thoughts you: the 350 specifically was a shoe created with “all people” in thoughts and its gross sales show its success. All adidas has to do is make sufficient to fulfill demand.