adidas released the second chapter of its Tyrrell Winston partnership today, and the shoe carrying it is the most expensive printed Climacool the brand has put in front of a general audience. The TW Climacool arrives September 8 at $220, worldwide, through adidas stores, adidas.com and the CONFIRMED app. Five days ago adidas sold a printed Climacool by draw and capped it at 400 pairs. This one is not capped and not drawn, and nothing about the rollout frames it as an experiment.
Climacool was initially designed in 2002, a date adidas states in its own press material. It started as a ventilation idea rather than a shoe, a way of moving air through the footbed and the upper instead of sealing the foot inside a mesh cage. For most of two decades the name lived as a technology label stamped across running and training lines, which is why it reads as an era to anyone who was buying adidas in the mid 2000s. The current chapter inverts that. adidas rebuilt Climacool as a fully printed shoe, one lattice structure doing the work of upper, midsole and ventilation at the same time. That version has been arriving in pieces, including a World Cup makeup that launched July 2, a recovery overshoe built on the same system, and then Futurecool, which added a tongue and shipped as 400 pairs. The technology stopped being a coating applied to a normal shoe and became the entire construction.
What Winston did with it reads more like a costume change than a redesign, and that is meant as a compliment. The lattice body stays cream and open, the perforated web running across the toe and out through the quarter. Three stripes cut the lateral side in red. The move that makes it his is the tongue, an oversized folded flap in technical mesh and leather, red, sitting on top of the printed body like something stitched on after the fact, with red laces running loose through it. adidas describes the fit as the ventilation and weightlessness of a slide with the security of a sneaker, which is an honest account of what a printed lattice actually does. There is no separate upper to break in and no midsole foam to compress. Winston works out of Detroit, and the rest of the FW26 capsule, titled The Athlete, runs on inverted panels and raw hems. That tongue is the same deliberate imperfection applied to a shoe a machine printed to be perfect.
The interesting part is not the shoe, it is the shelf. Printed footwear has spent a decade being announced and almost never sold. Nike is running its own version of that right now. The Air Works program, unveiled August 31, has eight designers building printed Air Max silhouettes with Zellerfeld, and Nike’s own release describes them as limited-run, friends and family pairs. Eight designers, none of them making something a customer can buy. adidas is doing the opposite in the same season. Futurecool at 400 pairs was still a drop. TW Climacool is a worldwide launch in full retail sizing, UK 6 to 13, with an artist’s name attached to give it a reason to exist beyond the printer. It is the first printed adidas Climacool that behaves like a product instead of a proof.
$220 is the top of this line so far. Futurecool listed at $180 for a shorter feature list and a far shorter print run, which is the inversion you would expect if scarcity were setting the number. It is not. The premium here is the collaboration and the leather and mesh tongue, not the rarity. For scale inside adidas’s own catalogue this week, the JENNIE Superstar sits at $130 and an F50 Messi Elite cleat runs $280, so a printed lifestyle shoe at $220 is now priced into the same conversation as a top-tier boot. Resale history on printed Climacool is thin enough that nobody should be building a plan around it.
The adidas x Tyrrell Winston TW Climacool releases September 8, 2026, worldwide, at $220 in UK 6 to 13. It is available in adidas stores, at adidas.com and through the CONFIRMED app. adidas has not published a style code for the shoe, so anyone tracking it by number will be waiting on the product page. Apparel from the same drop runs $80 to $180 in sizes 2XS to 2XL.
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