New Colorways for the adidas Y-3 Adios Pro 4

The adidas Y-3 Adios Pro 4 offers four distinct colorways set to release ahead of the spring marathon season, marking an evolution from Yamamoto's previous work with the silhouette. Where the Adios Pro 3's Y-3 treatment demonstrated characteristic restraint - think tonal blacks and subtle material interplays - this collection pushes into new territory while maintaining the line's design principles.

The collection features a stark black-on-white version with hand-painted striping, its inverse in white-on-black following the line's established language, a tonal grey execution introducing subtle metallic accents, and most notably, a terra cotta iteration that marks a significant departure from Y-3's typically monochromatic palette.

Each colorway interprets the three stripes through what appears to be an intentionally imperfect, painted aesthetic - a detail that adds artisanal character to the shoe's technical foundation. This treatment feels particularly interesting when compared to the Adios Pro 3's Y-3 editions, which favored cleaner lines and more architectural stripe applications. That terra cotta version especially stands out - where previous Y-3 running collaborations carefully explored the space between black and white, this brick red colorway pushes the line into unexplored chromatic territory while somehow maintaining Yamamoto's design philosophy.

The collection demonstrates how Y-3's approach to performance running continues to evolve. While the previous Adios Pro iterations showed us how performance and fashion could coexist through subtlety, these new colorways suggest Yamamoto is ready to expand that conversation, just in time for major spring marathons.

Cole Townsend

Cole Townsend is a developer, designer, and Head of Tech at Sole Retriever. He does some writing on top of helping keep Sole Retriever running on web and mobile! In his spare time, you can find him out running. Cole was a graduate from Williams College.