adidas Y-3 Makura 'Core White'

Makura is Japanese for pillow. Foam wraps the midsole from the outside, so the comfort is visible before it is felt.

Underneath sits the opposite — a spiked rubber sole lifted from track shoes.

Details

Y-3 Makura
Textile upper with suede overlays
Core white, cream white and orange
Mesh and leather lining
Foam padding wrapped around a cushioned EVA midsole
Spiked rubber outsole, drawn from track spikes
Padded collar and tongue
Lace closure
Y-3 logo print
Style code HQ5974

Background

Most Y-3 shoes begin in the adidas archive. This one does not. It started as an experiment in proportion and comfort — how soft a shoe can look before it stops reading as a shoe at all.

Yohji Yamamoto has spent fifty years holding two opposite things against each other and leaving them unresolved. Here it is a pillow set on a row of spikes, and neither gives way.

枕 — makura. The word for the thing you put your head on.