These Are the 11 Coolest Sneakers of the Week

The Iniki is Adidas’ latest foray into the retro runner trend while still avoiding an actual retro runner. Adidas brought those influences to bear on a totally new silhouette, placing it on top of a Boost sole. Sneaker fans are already scooping these up as fast as they can, and if you want to be an early adopter this is the week to do it.

Release: 3/1

$120, adidas.com

The folks at White Mountaineering couldn’t slow down if you begged them. This week they’re back with yet another Adidas release, taking on the new NMD R2. The sneaker is relatively smooth, with the now popular lateral sole plugs removed. The upper is all black with the proprietary White Mountaineering branding tape making three stripes across the toe of each shoe.

Release: 3/1

$170, adidas.com

There is no Air Max 90 like the “Infrared” colorway, one of the most classic Nike shoes of all time. Each year Nike finds a new way to remix this beloved colorway, this week reconfiguring it with Flyknit. The brand has done a similar treatment in the past, but this version is super clean and sleek, proving proficiency with this technology is truly a way to see classic looks in brilliant new ways.

Release: 3/2

$160, nike.com

This is the shoe that started it all. Based off the surprising inspiration of The Pompidou Center in Paris, when Tinker Hatfield brought his design for the Air Max 1 back to Nike’s campus in Portland, it launched the new Air Max program. Since then we’ve had generations of Air Max sneakers and an entire history of Air. The shoe has been rereleased a handful of times but this year the design team went back to the beginning, bringing back the original shape of the shoe in the original colorway. Hopefully it’ll make the impossible-to-please hardcore purists happy (for maybe the first time in their lives).

Release: 3/4

$140, nike.com

Brooklyn-based sneaker retailer Alumni looked to New York City history for its Brooks collaboration, considering “The Great Mistake” of 1898 when Brooklyn officially joined New York City. More than a hundred years later, the city is strong, but Brooklyn is its own culture, as represented on the shoes with mismatched pairs in the same colors and materials. It’s a subtle shift, but each shoe asserts its individuality.

Release: 3/4

$135, alumniofny.com

Adidas’ Sneaker Exchange continues with the three-way collaboration between Adidas, Kith, and Naked. The resulting duo of City Sock 2s dive deep into accessible, relatively neutral colorways with heathered texture. The beige and pink knit sock-shaped sneakers sit on Boost soles, each with a three stripe ribbon up the center of the shoe. The left of each pair features branding from Kith and Ronnie Fieg, while the right shows branding from Naked.

Release: 3/4

$210, adidas.com

Alexander Wang’s vision is in high demand and for good reason: He has a way of making us see things in new ways, subverting expectations and subtly shifting paradigms. This week he has two offerings with Adidas, the first being a new silhouette: the “Run Clean.” The shoe is deceptively simple with a multipiece white mesh sock on top of a Boost midsole and gum outsole. Tones of beige and white play off each other over the whole silhouette, while an inverted Trefoil logo sits at the heel.

Release: 3/4

$180, adidas.com

Alexander Wang’s new “Run Clean” is gussied up for the simply named “Run.” The sock upper has an added overlay that comprises almost the entire lacing system, attached at the toe and the heel. The laces wrap around to the back, preferring a drawstring closure at the heel instead of the traditional expectations of a bow closure on top. If you want the Wang look but the “Run Clean” goes a little too far for you, the “Run” is a happy medium.

Release: 3/4

$230, adidas.com