AURALEE Brings Its Muted Monochrome To The New Balance T500

A Paris showcase provides a look at this '25 collab.

Matt Varga January 27, 2025

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Joe Freshgoods and Aime Leon Dore unquestionably persist as New Balance’s most important collaborators, but how long will it be until AURALEE enters that conversation? Now topping the 20-pair point with the brand, the high fashion label’s Paris Fashion Week presence shone light on what’s to come in 2025, showing off the AURALEE New Balance T500 tabbed for this year.

Maintaining the tonal treatments that have defined each of their collabs so far, AURALEE hashes the New Balance T500 in key neutrals, revealing one pair with a refined brown and gum palette and one with all-over off-white. Across both, textured suede drapes the upper, bringing the shoe from its tennis origins into a more luxurious side of things.

Aime Leon Dore and GANNI have each taken to the silhouette since it returned to the market. Despite those high-profile link-ups, the brand has been relatively restrained with the model since last Summer: just under ten colorways have hit their site over that span. Even if the strategy has been restrained, it’s evident that New Balance still has belief the model can break out in the low-profile vein of competitors like the Samba or Handball Spezial, once again demonstrated by turning the T500 over to AURALEE.

Note that AURALEE’s previous releases have had nearly a year of latency between first-look and launch (AURALEE teased their WRPD Runner in June ’23 before a release in April — their New Balance 990v4 stretched from January ’24 to December ’24.) Thus, expect this pair landing sometime in the back half of the year. Enjoy official images included below.

: AURALEE x New Balance T500 AURALEE

: AURALEE x New Balance T500 AURALEE

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Matt Varga, Junior Editor

Matt Varga is an Editor at SneakerNews. Initially earning a degree in Video Arts and Technology, he got his start in video editing and writing in the music world — primarily on hip-hop and electronic. A long-standing interest in sneakers led him to switching over to footwear. An avid collector, his favorite sneaker of all time comes down to either the Air Jordan 1 “Black Toe” and Air Jordan 5 “Laney,” his first ever pick-ups. When he’s not writing, you can find Matt cooking, traveling, attending concerts and when weather permits, on the handball court.