Key Points
- Both colorways of the BAPE x adidas Adizero EVO SL release June 27, 2026 for $200.
- Style code KJ5749 pairs a blue right shoe with a green left shoe, red accents throughout.
- Each shoe flips the branding — the Three Stripes and the BAPE Sta logo swap sides.
- The EVO SL is adidas's max-stack everyday running shoe, here reworked as streetwear.
BAPE is running its mismatched-pair playbook on adidas's hottest trainer again. The BAPE x adidas Adizero EVO SL (style code KJ5749) arrives June 27, 2026 for $200 through adidas and select retailers — a deliberately split pair where the two shoes only make sense worn together.
The shoe
The right shoe is blue, the left is green, with cream midsoles cooling the brighter tones and red running through the laces, lining and outsoles to tie the odd couple together. The oversized black BAPE Sta logo stretches across the side panels, the loudest signal that this is a streetwear object first. adidas branding flips by foot: the right shoe wears the Three Stripes on the medial side and the Sta on the lateral, the left shoe reverses it. The Adizero EVO SL markings stay on the upper and midsole, so the running pedigree is still legible under the camo-era theatrics.
Why a runner, not a Samba
BAPE has spent years applying this treatment to terrace silhouettes — the Superstar, the Campus, the Samba. Putting it on the EVO SL, a max-stack performance trainer adidas built for everyday mileage, changes the read. The pairing borrows the credibility of a genuine running shoe and dresses it in the most recognizable logo in streetwear, which is the whole trade: function as the base, branding as the markup. It slots into a June 2026 release calendar already crowded with collaborations leaning on heritage rather than performance.
The bet
At $200 for a mismatched pair, BAPE is wagering that the split-color gimmick still reads as a flex rather than a factory error — and that the Sta logo carries enough weight to move a running shoe most buyers will never run in. For a brand built on repetition, the move is on-brand to the letter.
Source: SneakerNews, Sneaker Bar Detroit
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