Update, October 11: Released. After the Club Banana drop on October 2, the 992 went wider on Friday, October 9, at New Balance and select retailers.
Aminé’s latest New Balance collab moves to the Made in USA 992. It dropped first through his own Club Banana store on October 2, then reached New Balance and select retailers on Friday, October 9.
The shoe
The “Outdoor School” name comes from Oregon’s Outdoor School, the residential science programme that has been taking the state’s kids into the woods since the 1950s. Aminé grew up in Portland, and New Balance’s listing says the colours are meant to read as the ground you’d have dug in on that trip: smooth brown pig suede for soil, burgundy and dark maroon patent overlays for wood, worms and rocks.
It is still a Made in USA 992 underneath, with ABZORB in the midsole. The listing names a Club Banana logo on the tongue, Aminé’s signature at the heel, custom insoles, spare laces, a ‘wood cookie’ hangtag and tackle-box packaging. Style code U992NE.
Price and where to buy
- Price: $219.99 on New Balance’s product page.
- Dates: Club Banana on October 2, then New Balance and select retailers from Friday, October 9, as reported by Sneaker News, Sole Retriever and Footwear News.
- UK: no UK date or £ price had been announced when we last checked.
Worth chasing?
Aminé has worked with New Balance before, on the 610 “The Mooz” and the 2000 “Biblioteca”, and this one had a head start through Club Banana a week early. Made in USA collabs rarely sit around long, so if New Balance still shows your size, that’s the cheapest it will be.
More from the brand on our New Balance page.
