Colour-changing shoes gaining ground
The adidas Yeezy Boost 350 V2 “Light”, expected to release this summer, has been fitted with UV-sensitive, colour-changing technology, a treatment which allows adidas’ Primeknit upper to gradually change hues as the sunlight hits.
Rendered entirely in a creamy white colour on first glance, UV light causes predominantly beige tones to wash over special knitted side stripes, although the entire upper is light-sensitive.
In a related way, Toronto-based Opalux’s chameleonix technology also offers “custom” colour aesthetics for a shoe’s upper.
Thin, lightweight and “energy efficient”, chameleonix moulds to the surface of footwear and allows wearers to switch up their shoes’ hues via the “press of a button” within the company’s specialist app. (The microstructure of the film’s photonic crystals changes when voltage is applied, which in turn facilitates colour changes.)
