The first thing you notice is the texture. Not a printed motif but actual relief: the Wales Bonner x adidas Gazelle “Green Night” is wrapped in deep green leather with a crocodile or lizard grain, and that alone lifts a familiar silhouette into another register.
It’s a low Gazelle Indoor on a gum sole, with a surprise detail — a gold adidas logo that runs subtly across that gum. The three stripes are done in off-white, a clean contrast against the bottle-green. The heel carries a cream panel with a visible, almost hand-done whipstitch around it, and the inside opens up with a bright cobalt-blue lining. Officially the palette reads Crystal Sky, Green Night and Power Blue; in the hand it’s mostly that interplay of dark, texture and one unexpected flash of blue.
Real crocodile grain, not a fake print
What has set this collaboration apart for years is exactly this: material over logo. Wales Bonner and adidas play with surfaces instead of loud colour blocks, so the crocodile grain feels more like shoemaking than sneaker marketing. The gold eyelets and the heel whipstitch finish it off. This is a drop you’d expect in a fashion boutique sooner than in a queue for a hype release.
How dark green turns neutral
Styling is more forgiving than it looks. Deep green behaves almost like a neutral: it works with camel, with off-white, with grey flannel and with denim. Pair the Gazelle with a wide trouser and an oversized blazer and you land that mix of polished and offhand the silhouette was built for. The blue lining and the gum keep things from reading too strict. Even with a skirt, as a boot-replacing sneaker, it slots right in.
On price there’s plenty to work with on Solezilla.com, and it’s mostly real retail. The floor sits around €189 at Tessabit, with a wide band of shops — Offspring, Warsaw, Asphaltgold, 43einhalb, Solebox, BSTN, Footshop and more — clustered close together around €216 to €220. UK buyers can start near £166 at Slam Jam, and US listings open around $220 at Extra Butter. A couple of outliers climb well past that: one marketplace pair at €325 and a single listing far above the rest, so ignore the extremes and shop the €189–€220 band. This is a release the market is treating calmly — our Hypescore still reads INERT — which means you’re choosing on size and colour, not racing a resale clock.
Want to set it against the other colours before deciding? Open the “Green Night” prices and sizes, then compare the rest of the adidas Gazelle range and the wider adidas line in one overview.
A Gazelle that carries itself like proper footwear: Grail or Bail? Let us know whether this green makes your closet.