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Saucony Shadow 6000: the retailers’ favorite

Some models become famous because of a single famous wearer. The Shadow 6000 became so because of dozens of small shops. Browse this page and you’ll stumble over the names of sneaker stores and collectives from around the world, from Bait and Extra Butter to Alife, Offspring, Feature and Premier. For a running model from Saucony’s archive that’s a notably dense series of collaborations, and it explains why you rarely come across two that are the same.

The shoe lends itself to that. The upper consists of a stack of separate panels in suede, mesh and smooth leather, with seams that clearly separate the surfaces. That gives anyone designing a version a shoe full of distinct planes to play with, and on the flank the Saucony river logo sits as a large, contiguous panel that almost always gets its own colour. The white midsole has the brand name pressed into it, with a grey outsole beneath.

Historically the 6000 belongs to the Shadow family Saucony built up in the 1980s. The Shadow 5000 is the better-known brother with its three holes through the logo; the 6000 is fuller in shape and doesn’t have those holes. Placed side by side you immediately see which of the two you have.

Within the brand this page sits in the company of the Triumph, which carried its name across three technical eras, and the Guide, which leads a double life between track and street. Of that trio the Shadow 6000 is the most collected, and the least predictable in what appears.

On this page you’ll see which variants of the Saucony Shadow 6000 are currently hottest according to the Hypescore, from what price they’re available and in how many shops they are in stock.