This colorway released a few days ago on December 22, 2021 and was heavily overshadowed by the restock of the Belugas (though reflective). This black-based Yeezy features a mixture of organic-looking swirls of colors which freshens up this overplayed silhouette. I was not able to get my size unfortunately but can admire this shoe from afar thanks to Elliot Page’s YT review.

Kanye West’s creative control of a GAP collaboration is almost upon us as teased by the launch of this web page.

Seemingly a signup form to be notified when products matching your specifications become available, but what if the form were a form of a combination. Maybe picking the right Top, Bottom, Shoe, and Hat size unlocks early access to the YZY line?

Here are your options:

• Top (8) – XXS, XS, S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL
• Bottom (8) – XXS, XS, S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL
• Shoe – M4 – M16 (25) and W5.5 – W17.5 (25)
• Hat (3) – S, M, L

I’m thinking that’s 1 out of 9600 to get the right “combination” (if there were one, who knows?). If you don’t guess the combo, your consolation prize is the option to buy a $200 round jacket.

I learned that the reflective version was very limited, but I didn’t consider that this non-reflective version would be difficult to get. And even though Adidas held a raffle, I thought winning one would be probable.

Should I be insulted not getting a pair?

Let’s hope there are more than 1200 pairs available of the Zyons

Sadly, despite my efforts, I could not get a new pair of house slippers RNNRs.

The hope is that this ten-year agreement can and will revive the traditional ins-tore shopping experience, bringing:

modern, elevated basics for men, women and kids at accessible price points

while reversing the recent closure of physical stores like this former Banana Republic in Ala Moana.

Now my only question is if my next Yeezy shoe will come from The Gap?

The sale stops and is put on hold when there’s too many customers in the digital store it seems.

Here is Seth’s review.

It’s now past 10:00PM HST on December 29, and these Yeezy 700 Waverunners are not available.

I like big boxes and I can not lie
You other brothers can’t deny

-Sir Mix-a-Lot

Yeah, I was excited to see what was delivered in this huge box that measured two feet by three feet.

And yeah, I was disappointed to find this itty bitty pair of Yeezys inside.

A single pair… could’ve easily fit two boxes, maybe even three, but nope one Citrin Yeezy had a roomy ride during delivery.

Humbled by the footsite shutout, I dejectedly waited for more rejection from Yeezysupply. I hadn’t been able to buy from YS like ever (okay, there was that one checkout during Yeezy Day). But if I didn’t try then the shutout would be complete. So at 4am, I refreshed, saw the Cloud Yeezys, and started the checkout process.

Then there was that checkbox. What was that? It was definitely new, and it was my key to success. Because of this wrinkle of one additional check, bots were confused and couldn’t handle this anomaly. This opened the way for a very smooth checkout. It was glorious even.

After that the sky was full of clouds.

The regular, non-reflective Citrins dropped on Monday morning with mixed fanfare. Some like them, most don’t. But in usual Yeezy fashion, small and huge sizes sold out first. First there was the footsites of Footlocker, Eastbay, Champs, and Footaction (along with Finishline) at 1am HST. I couldn’t get past queue for most of the sites until much later. I did get into Champs right away and managed a checkout there, but like Footaction orders, I wasn’t sure if Champs would ship to Hawaii. Luckily they do.

Then hours later came Yeezy Supply and the Adidas app raffle. YS rolled out the same checkout process as the Clouds with that extra check at the beginning of checkout. Most bots factored this change in, but manual checkout was still smooth. Then the RF aka reflective changeup happened. About one hour after the non-reflective drop, YS puts up their infamous password page indicating that something is about to happen. Then surprisingly, Adidas starts up its waiting room for the Citrin RF.

I jumped in all queues, but YS was smart. Because queues were already triggered by the NRF Citrin drop, the RF checkouts would automatically face these queues. So you see where this is headed right? With all these stops in place, it was inevitable to see this.

No reflective clouds for me.

Yes, I guess “Yeezy Day” is an actual thing where past and present Yeezy kicks are made available once again. Sounds like a kicks lover’s dream, but in reality, it really wasn’t. It was prolonged torture going after drop after drop that started at 3am Hawaii time. And being Yeezy Day, the releases came throughout the day finally ending around 4:45pm Hawaii time. Yep, that’s over 12 hours of shoe releases and over 12 hours tethered to a computer or phone hoping to hit.

Since 25 different Yeezy models released alternating between Adidas and Yeezy Supply, you definitely had many opportunities to get yourself a pair (or two or more). But that time investment stuck to a computer or phone was just too much, and I think the return on investment just wasn’t worth it. Sure, coveted models like the Glow in the Darks and the Black 350 surfaced again, they went quickly. Slow sellers like the Mauve 700 stayed slow sellers.

Although I applaud Adidas and Kanye for this overall concept and mixing things up with countdown timers, hidden drops, and alternating sites, they need to rethink the overall experience. Initial excitment turned into fatigue after the first few hours of releases. When everyone realized that the shoes would surface in waves, reality set in and life called. I had several appointments today so had to rely on mobile copping. Of course, this was an understood losing proposition, but I couldn’t help it. I even skipped today’s Kith pop-up opening (also because of the massive lines). I didn’t want to wait in both physical and virtual queues all day.

But back to Yeezy Day. Yeah, fun idea that became unfun, unpleasant, and bordering a nightmare. The prolonged ups and downs of copping, the conditions that changed from release to release, all the successes and all the failures – just too much to be enjoyed.

I really don’t know what I ended up with – not much really and definitely nothing hyped. I wanted the Black 350 and another shot at a bigger sized Beluga, but these went out of stock super quick. Maybe if some shoes were discounted, I would have considered a less popular Yeezy 700, but at full price, it was an easy pass. As the hours labored on, I’ll admit the merciful relief I had when I saw this final countdown timer.

When a volcano erupts it will sometimes eject material such as rock fragments into the atmosphere. This material is known as tephra. Source.

And the Tephra coud be representative of volcanic tephra with it rocky color palette.

Previously, the last 700 release was the Vanta. Did you know that the color, Vanta black, supposedly is the darkest black ever? A special Vanta black compound absorbs 99% of the light shining on it making painted objects nearly impossible to determine its shape.

Yes, these Vanta 700 are comparatively dark compared to other Yeezy 700 colorways. Who knew you could be scientifically educated by Yeezy kicks?

The employees wear the SP uniform and all plastic bags have the SP branding. But… this location gets the hype releases like the recent Yeezy Clays although only one full size run. And sadly, this shoe guy was one person too late to buy the last Clay.

Walked into the store and say that Yeezy 350 box and asked if had any more. That was the last one being bought.

Scary moment before the drop as it looked like I was banned from the Adidas site. Closing all browsers and restarting my Mac luckily remedied this issue. Then the waiting began.

Ding ding! That Adidas bell notification has to be one of the simplest and most useful feature ever.

I got in about 45 minutes after launch and had a size 6 in my cart. Sadly, due to payment lag and slowdowns, I could not check out during my session time and was put back into the waiting room.  About one hour later, I finally escaped the waiting room, but by then, only common sizes remained. So I grabbed a personal pair just in case.

Hours later, I still couldn’t get back to purchasing as sizes gradually went out of stock.

And now the Clay drop is officially over at Adidas.com.