New Balance 991 v2 UK "Limoges"
Retail: $270 | Style Code: U991VB2
Release Date: April 16th, 2026
New Balance 991v2 Made in UK "Limoges/Pageant Blue"
Water answers fire. The New Balance 991v2 Made in UK "Limoges/Pageant Blue" arrives as the elemental counterpart to the "Grenadine" in the Vibrant Chroma pack — where its pack companion burns with the warmth of orange and heat, the "Limoges" settles into the cool, composed depth of blue in a colorway that takes its name from one of France's most storied cities. Limoges has produced some of Europe's finest ceramics for centuries — objects defined by their glaze, their depth, their ability to hold color with a clarity that time does not diminish. On the 991v2's layered, architecturally precise upper, that reference is not decorative. It is accurate.
The Limoges blue premium suede commands the overlays — mudguard, eyestays, heel, and side panels — in the specific, considered tone of the French city's most celebrated glaze: a blue that reads as regal without trying to be, that carries its depth without demanding attention for it. Beneath the suede, a darker Pageant Blue mesh provides the base layer, the tonal contrast between the two blues giving the upper the same kind of dimensional quality that ceramic glazing achieves — layers of the same color family revealing depth through material and finish rather than hue change. Grey underlays break through at the structural points with the composed neutrality that New Balance has always used to ground its most chromatic colorways, while reflective N logos catch light across the side panel with the quiet flash of a glaze catching afternoon sun. The oversized N, laces, tongue branding, and heel tabs all arrive in the same muted grey, the secondary color anchoring the blue palette from every angle without once competing with it.
Underfoot, the full-length FuelCell midsole, ENCAP stability technology, and ABZORB SBS cushioning pods deliver the lifted, responsive, all-day comfort that the v2 designation most meaningfully advanced over the original — the performance platform as considered as the colorway above it, both built in Flimby, Cumbria with the unhurried precision that Made in UK manufacturing has represented for decades. Fire and water. Orange and blue. The 991v2 holds both with equal conviction, and the "Limoges" proves that the cooler element is always the more patient one.