Born in 1989 and reborn in the 2020s, it's unlikely that anyone might have predicted the new life that the New Balance 550 has taken on. Arguably more popular now than 30+ years ago, the past couple of seasons have seen the 550 catapulted into the lifestyle sphere thanks to the work of collaborators and influencers alike. After a period of being surprisingly hard to get a hold of, we're happy to see this style more readily accessible now.
These joints are a New Yorker's dream – we just need Spiderman rocking these instead of the Timbs and it'll be gucci. The wheat nubuck uppers are accented with hits of mustard yellow to stop things getting a little too tonal. The outsole is a dreamboat, with the entirety of the tooling finished in gum rubber – a shoe out for our very own hearts.
Wheat anything is straight fire and these are a 550 as well so you're probably running out of time as you contemplate whether you're going to wear these enough…
Looks like shit