Product Description
The Onitsuka Tiger Mexico 66 Birch Kale Red Gold is a Fall Winter 2023 colorway of the Mexico 66, the Onitsuka Tiger silhouette that draws its design heritage directly from the 1966 Limber training shoe that the Japanese brand produced for athletes preparing for the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, making the Mexico 66 one of the most historically situated and most culturally specific sneaker silhouettes in the global catalog of retro running shoes from the pre-Nike era. Onitsuka Tiger, the Kobe-founded brand that predates Nike's own origin story and that produced some of the earliest performance running shoes in the American market through a distribution arrangement with Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman before their partnership dissolved, has maintained the Mexico 66 as its most consistent and most globally recognized model for decades, the shoe functioning simultaneously as heritage document and contemporary lifestyle sneaker. The Birch, Kale, Red, and Gold colorway applies a warm natural birch base to the leather upper and overlays it with Kale, the deep earthy green, on the brand's signature Tiger Stripes that cross the midfoot in the lateral-to-medial direction that defines the Mexico 66's most immediately recognizable design feature. Red and Gold accents complete the palette, the warmth of the red and the richness of the gold tones building a colorway that has the earthy, natural-world character appropriate to the seasonal positioning of a Fall release. The leather construction delivers the premium material character that distinguishes the Mexico 66 from lower-tier lifestyle trainers, and the flat rubber outsole maintains the original shoe's low-profile, clean-contact ground feel. Style code 1183B511-200, released September 10, 2023 at $120 in men's sizing.
The Onitsuka Tiger Mexico 66 Birch Kale Red Gold is the heritage Japanese training shoe in the season's most grounded and most naturally referential colorway, the pair for the wearer who wants the Mexico 66's 1966 design lineage and premium leather construction in an earthy, warmly accented Fall palette.
The Onitsuka Tiger Mexico 66 Birch Kale Red Gold was released on September 10, 2023 with a retail price of $120.
