Green and yellow, speckled like something growing. Released December 2019, at the end of the strangest year the shoe line ever had.
The non reflective Yeezreel, worth saying up front, because the reflective version shares the colourway and doesn’t share the price.
The name comes from Jezreel, a valley in northern Israel and a Hebrew name meaning roughly God will sow. That wasn’t decoration either. Through 2019 every Yeezy release was being named out of scripture and cosmology, Yecheil, Israfil, Yeshaya, Lundmark, and the shoes were landing alongside Sunday Service and the release of Jesus Is King that October. Whatever you make of the man, the object was built inside a specific and very public conversion, and the naming is the fingerprint it left.
The shoe underneath all that is genuinely well made, which gets forgotten. The 350 V2 is a Primeknit sock on a Boost midsole: thousands of expanded thermoplastic polyurethane pellets fused into a foam that returns energy instead of flattening out. adidas launched Boost in 2013 and it changed what a running midsole could be. The Yeezy line put it under something people wanted to wear to dinner.
The green and yellow speckle is the best thing about the Yeezreel and the reason it still gets picked up. Most of the line lives in sand, bone, grey and black. This one is loud in a way that looks organic rather than synthetic, more moss and pollen than neon, and it sits under a plain black or indigo trouser far more easily than the photographs suggest.
Supply is fixed now. Adidas ended the partnership in October 2022, so nothing further is being made and every pair in circulation is a pair that already exists. That’s a fact rather than a sales pitch, and it cuts both ways, but it’s the honest frame for anybody deciding whether to buy one.
Size: 12
Material: Primeknit Upper/Boost Midsole
Colour: Green/Yellow Speckle
Details: Non-Reflective
Green and yellow, speckled like something growing. Released December 2019, at the end of the strangest year the shoe line ever had.
The non reflective Yeezreel, worth saying up front, because the reflective version shares the colourway and doesn’t share the price.
The name comes from Jezreel, a valley in northern Israel and a Hebrew name meaning roughly God will sow. That wasn’t decoration either. Through 2019 every Yeezy release was being named out of scripture and cosmology, Yecheil, Israfil, Yeshaya, Lundmark, and the shoes were landing alongside Sunday Service and the release of Jesus Is King that October. Whatever you make of the man, the object was built inside a specific and very public conversion, and the naming is the fingerprint it left.
The shoe underneath all that is genuinely well made, which gets forgotten. The 350 V2 is a Primeknit sock on a Boost midsole: thousands of expanded thermoplastic polyurethane pellets fused into a foam that returns energy instead of flattening out. adidas launched Boost in 2013 and it changed what a running midsole could be. The Yeezy line put it under something people wanted to wear to dinner.
The green and yellow speckle is the best thing about the Yeezreel and the reason it still gets picked up. Most of the line lives in sand, bone, grey and black. This one is loud in a way that looks organic rather than synthetic, more moss and pollen than neon, and it sits under a plain black or indigo trouser far more easily than the photographs suggest.
Supply is fixed now. Adidas ended the partnership in October 2022, so nothing further is being made and every pair in circulation is a pair that already exists. That’s a fact rather than a sales pitch, and it cuts both ways, but it’s the honest frame for anybody deciding whether to buy one.
Size: 12
Material: Primeknit Upper/Boost Midsole
Colour: Green/Yellow Speckle
Details: Non-Reflective
