Eighteen months after it first leaked, the Bad Bunny x adidas Gazelle Solar Gold is being written up across the sneaker internet as an October 2026 release at $140 under style code KI2592. adidas has not said any of that. There is no release on the adidas newsroom, no product page, and no listing on the CONFIRMED app. Every number attached to this shoe traces back to a pair of leak accounts and the outlets that reposted them.
This post carried those numbers as though they were settled, including in the structured release data the site publishes for search engines to read. Those fields have been cleared. The style code, the price and the October window are all still worth reporting, because leak accounts have a decent record on adidas colorways, but reporting a detail and asserting it are two different jobs. JustFreshKicks, one of the two outlets carrying the specifics, tells readers in its own copy to take it with a grain of salt. The Drop Date notes that an official statement from adidas is still under wraps. Those are the honest framings, and this post now matches them.
The Gazelle itself has a documented origin adidas still publishes. The brand dates it to 1966 and describes two versions at launch, both on a suede upper, one with a transparent herringbone sole built for indoor sport and one on a microcellular rubber outsole sold as a training shoe. The suede was the notable part, because adidas had been building in leather and canvas. The shoe drifted out of sport and into British terrace and music culture across the following decades, then into a mainstream boom in the mid-2020s that adidas met by scaling Gazelle, Samba and Campus production hard. The reported Solar Gold is a Gazelle Indoor specifically, the lower and wider gum-soled version of the two, which is the one Bad Bunny has spent the most time on.
The partnership is five years old, a figure adidas used itself in August 2025 when it staged a Puerto Rico takeover and archive exhibition covering roughly 150 products and more than 115 sneakers that had never been shown publicly. It started in 2021 with the Forum Low in The First Cafe. The Gazelle Indoor entered in September 2024 carrying adidas para Bad Bunny branding at $140, and adidas has run it steadily since, through San Juan and then a 2025 City Series covering Cabo Rojo, Santurce, El Yunque, Vega Baja and Ponce. Solar Gold, if it lands, joins a line that already runs deep. That is a plainer read than the coverage is giving it.
The more useful question is what the Bad Bunny line is worth in 2026. February brought BadBo 1.0, his first fully original adidas silhouette rather than a colorway of an existing one, launched around Super Bowl LX. Resale has split hard since. Scarce older Gazelle Indoor colorways still command real premiums, with El Yunque asking north of five hundred dollars. The newest wave does not. BadBo 1.0 in Rise, the Ballerina in Flamboyan and the F50 Ghost Sprint are all trading well under likely retail, and even the original Gazelle Indoor shows a recent sale below its $140 launch price. A 2025 colorway arriving into that market is a different proposition than one arriving into the 2024 market.
On price, $140 is what adidas charged for the Gazelle Indoor at launch, so the reported figure is at least internally consistent with the line rather than pulled from the air. One UK-facing outlet lists 120 pounds instead, which reads as a normal regional difference rather than a conflict. Anyone budgeting for this should look at the live market first. Multiple Bad Bunny releases from the last twelve months are sitting under retail on the secondary market right now, which is not what that name did two years ago.
Nothing about the Bad Bunny x adidas Gazelle Solar Gold is confirmed. The reported details are an October 2026 window, $140 and style code KI2592, all sourced to leaks rather than to adidas. No adidas product page exists, and no adidas press imagery exists either, so any photo circulating is a leak image and should be read as one. adidas normally announces Bad Bunny releases through its newsroom and the CONFIRMED app first, so those are the two places worth watching.
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Source: Justfreshkicks
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