adidas Climacool 4D Laced "Grey Black"
Retail: $160 | Style Code: KJ8966
Release Date: April 1st, 2026

Engineering made visible. The adidas Climacool 4D Laced "Grey Black" takes two of adidas's most technically ambitious platforms — the Climacool's ventilation-first design philosophy and the 4D midsole's lattice-structure cushioning printed from light and oxygen — and unites them in the colorway that lets both systems speak without interference. Grey and black are not a default here. They are a deliberate choice to make the technology the aesthetic, to let the engineering be the design, and to prove that the most sophisticated statement a performance shoe can make is the one that shows its work.

The grey upper arrives in an engineered mesh construction that the Climacool system requires — a 360-degree ventilation architecture that moves air across the foot with the directional intention of a design that has studied airflow the way aeronautical engineers study drag. Every aperture, every panel orientation, every mesh density chosen for thermal management rather than visual effect, and the grey tone that runs through the upper revealing the construction's logic rather than hiding it. The black 4D midsole sits beneath in the lattice geometry that additive manufacturing makes possible and subtractive manufacturing never could — a structure that is simultaneously the lightest and most precisely calibrated cushioning platform adidas produces, the black finish giving the printed geometry a depth that the grey upper sets up and the eye cannot leave alone.

The Climacool 4D Laced "Grey Black" is for the wearer who looks at a shoe and wants to understand it — who finds the engineering as compelling as the aesthetic, who knows that the most honest colorway for a technology-first shoe is the one that puts the technology first. Grey reveals. Black defines. The 4D does the rest. Some shoes hide what they are made of. This one makes it the entire conversation.