adidas has the BadBo 1.0 back on November 12 in Grey Three, Cloud White and Orbit Grey, which is the quietest colorway the shoe has worn since its debut. That is worth noting, because the last eight months of this silhouette have been one long argument about contrast, and the 1.1 appeared to have settled it. The 1.0 is now answering with grey on grey.
The BadBo is the first shoe adidas built for Bad Bunny rather than handed to him. His run with the brand went through existing models first, the Forum, then the Response CL, then the Campus, each rewired with his palette and his ideas about proportion. Those sold hard, and they were still adidas shoes wearing somebody else’s name. The BadBo 1.0 landed in February 2026 as the first silhouette drawn from nothing for him, and it reads as a nineties basketball shoe put through a filter. A bulbous midsole, layered suede panels stacked over a structural shell, and a mid collar that sits high enough to change how the shoe gets worn. The detail everything else hangs on is the quarter panel, where adidas cut curved triangular windows that expose a second layer underneath rather than sitting on top of it. The debut colorway, Resilience, was almost entirely white, and every version since has tested how much the shape can hold before it stops being readable. The windows are the reason anyone can identify the shoe at a distance, so what sits behind them is not a finishing decision. It is the design.
Grey Three works in two registers rather than three. A mid grey suede carries the toe, the quarter and the collar, with the nap long enough to shift tone as the light moves, and the panels behind the windows are cut in a much paler grey that comes close to white. The eyestay is white nylon, the laces are off-white rope, and a row of zigzag stitching runs across the base of the tongue. The midsole is cream rather than bright white, which keeps the whole shoe off the blue end of grey. Pull the collar open and the sockliner is the one dark surface on the shoe, charcoal with a grey Trefoil at the heel and a circled six-pointed star set below it, the same star the line has been putting underfoot rather than on the upper. adidas lists the upper as leather and textile, and the outsole repeats the zigzag in cream. Seen from above the shoe is almost entirely pale, and the sockliner is the only moment of real contrast anywhere on it, which is a strange place to put the loudest thing you own.
Whether that pale layer does enough is the whole question, and this site has now watched it play out three times. On the Night Navy pair the windows framed the palest of three blues, and the effect stayed tonal, because suede against suede at slightly different shades does not read from more than a few feet away. The 1.1 fixed it in one cut by dropping the collar and putting charcoal mesh behind the openings, which was the first time the cutouts registered as cutouts at all. Grey Three splits the difference. The pale panel against mid grey gives more separation than navy on navy managed, and far less than mesh on white. It is a better tonal attempt than the last tonal attempt, which is a modest thing to be.
The strategic read is less flattering. The 1.0 has been admired more than it has been worn, and the honest fix for that was the 1.1, a lower, lighter, cheaper shoe that solved the proportions and the contrast at the same time. Bringing the 1.0 back in the safest possible palette is not a design answer, it is a merchandising one, aimed at the buyer who wants the signature shape in something that disappears under a trouser hem. There is a real audience for that. It just is not the audience that made the windows the point.
Retail is $160, the same figure the Night Navy pair carried in September. The BadBo 1.1 Low arrives the same morning at $120, so the 1.0 is still asking forty dollars more for the collar, the extra suede and the height, against a sibling that reviewed better and wears easier. That gap matters more in grey than it did in navy, because the thing the premium buys is a silhouette statement, and this colorway is built to not make one.
The adidas BadBo 1.0 in Grey Three, Cloud White and Orbit Grey releases Thursday, November 12 at 7 a.m. PT under product code LC5290, priced at $160, through adidas and select retailers. The BadBo 1.1 Low, code LM5057, lands the same morning at $120.
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