adidas put its next 3D-printed shoe on some of the most-watched feet at the World Cup before anyone could buy it. Paul Pogba, Marcelo Vieira, Rodrygo Goes, Éder Militão, Trinity Rodman, Cade Cowell and Cavan Sullivan all wore an unreleased Climacool at the brand’s Home of Soccer celebration at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Two days later, on July 2, it went on sale.
That release is the Climacool Laced, $170, five colorways: Solar Turbo (KI2678), Off White/Solar Turbo (KH8440), Grey Four/Solar Turbo (KI2680), Off White/Core Black (KJ0659) and Night Cargo/Core White (KJ2595).
How it is made
The shoe is printed as a single lattice rather than cut and stitched from separate materials. No assembled upper, no glued midsole, one continuous structure with ventilated channels running through it. It looks like a concept and wears like a sneaker, and adidas has been building toward it for years.
What is easy to miss from photos is how fast the platform has been iterating. The first Climacool arrived in 2025 as a laceless slip-on. The laced version followed in spring 2026 at $160. The July wave is the third pass in about eighteen months, and each one fixed something the last one got wrong.
What actually changed, according to someone wearing all three
Mike Guillory has the 2025 laceless pair, the spring 2026 laced pair and the current one, and put them side by side. His wife wore the original laceless version daily in a classroom, which is how he got interested in the first place.
The complaint about the laceless model was entry. Pulling a sock-covered foot through a printed lattice with no give drags the sock and fights you. Laces solved that, and he describes the difference as night and day. The second complaint was the open bottom. The lattice runs all the way through, so it breathes beautifully and it collects rocks, mud and grit, and it is difficult to clean once it does.
The current version answers that with a slab of rubber across the bottom, thin enough to keep the shoe light, closed enough to keep debris out. Mike reads the ten dollar jump from $160 to $170 as paying for that material, and calls it worth it if the shoe lasts longer.
The design turn
The cream pair he has runs metallic three stripes rendered as brush strokes rather than clean bars. He is not the only one reading Y-3 in it, and that is the point. adidas is moving Climacool away from “what is that on your foot” and toward something that reads as everyday.
His larger argument is worth sitting next to the specs. adidas has a flagship shelf that runs on Samba, Campus and Superstar, all of it nostalgia. Climacool has no history to lean on and no athlete story attached. It is being built into a flagship on the strength of being new, at a price and a size run that let people actually buy it. A 4D-printed basketball shoe is already in the pipeline.
Sizing
Go up half a size. Mike says the run he saw was half sizes only, which took him from his usual 10 to a 10.5, and independent sizing feedback points the same direction, with a narrow fit and a tight entry. If you can try a pair on, do that.
For more, see our adidas coverage.
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