{"id":77422,"date":"2023-01-06T17:37:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T09:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/?p=77422"},"modified":"2023-01-06T18:13:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:13:18","slug":"non-leather-new-balance-550-canvas-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/01\/06\/non-leather-new-balance-550-canvas-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"A Non-Leather New Balance 550 in the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year has passed with the New Balance 550 <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/01\/04\/the-best-sneaker-revivals-of-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">showing no signs of slowing down<\/a>. Almost a week into 2023, New Balance continues to pump out variations of the heritage model.<\/p>\n<p>Following today&#8217;s news of a <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/01\/06\/the-womens-new-balance-550-combines-white-and-silver\/?slide=right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vintage &#8220;Team Royal&#8221;<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/01\/06\/the-womens-new-balance-550-combines-white-and-silver\/?slide=right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;White and Silver&#8221;<\/a>, the Boston-based footwear brand surprised us with a non-leather pair that sports pops of &#8220;Turtledove&#8221; neon green.<\/p>\n<p>Under Aim\u00e9 Leon Dore&#8217;s creative leadership, New Balance has honored the NB 550&#8217;s rich heritage by sticking to its OG specs and keeping to a vintage 80s look that, often than not, features leather as its main material. It is this relentless vision that makes this incoming pair an oddball.<\/p>\n<p>Here, the New Balance 550 &#8220;Turtledove&#8221; switches things up completely, eschewing leather for a mix of canvas, suede and mesh. Most of the sneaker is covered with canvas and suede in neutral tones such as white, beige and &#8220;Sandstone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>NB cleverly sprinkled some neon green around the outsole and trimmings, which further draws the eye to the unique choice of materials and construction of this pair.<\/p>\n<p>As we wait for more release details of the New Balance 550 &#8220;Turtledove&#8221; to come through, take a first look at this colorway via official images in the gallery above.<\/p>\n<p>In other sneaker-related news, here&#8217;s an early look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/01\/06\/first-look-stussy-x-timberland-x-gore-tex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threeway collab between St\u00fcssy, Timberland, and GORE-TEX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/snkrdunk_int\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22285 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy.webp\" alt=\"Magazine-Bottom-Banner\" width=\"970\" height=\"\u201c300\u201d\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy.webp 970w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy-300x93.webp 300w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy-768x238.webp 768w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy-282x87.webp 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">NBWMNS550<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year has passed with the New Balance 550 showing no signs of slowing down. Almost a week into 2023, New Balance continues to pump out variations of the heritage model. Following today&#8217;s news of a vintage &#8220;Team Royal&#8221; and a &#8220;White and Silver&#8221;, the Boston-based footwear brand surprised us with a non-leather pair that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":77464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21,18,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brands","category-calendar","category-latest-news","category-new-balance","category-releases"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77422"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77611,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77422\/revisions\/77611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}