Mizuno comes from Osaka and was built for marathoners and footballers, not sneaker collectors. Somewhere along the way, though, these same shoes started showing up far from the track, from the Wave Prophecy Morelia Neo to the MXR Sandal and the Wave Rider 10, all pulled from a running archive and put to work on the street.
Wave Prophecy Morelia Neo
Nothing has pushed Mizuno further into fashion than this one, a shoe that fuses the Morelia, a football boot Mizuno's been making since 1985, with the Infinity Wave sole off the Wave Prophecy running shoe from 2011, two completely different jobs stitched into a single upper. Paris Fashion Week saw it first, then it landed here in a metallic Silver colorway, high-shine synthetic leather, sharp black accents, the Morelia Neo 4's shape still visible underneath all of it.
MXR Sandal
A spinoff of the Wave Rider 10 , with cut-out mesh panels replacing the closed-up upper and laces going quick-pull. HBX stocks it in Snow White and Black, both with a tan gum sole that keeps the whole thing looking finished instead of half-baked, and it was never really meant to run in any way, built more for the gap between sneakers and sandals that most shoes just ignore.
Wave Prophecy Strap
The Wave Prophecy Strap is perhaps the strangest shoe Mizuno has designed. Dropping laces entirely for a strap system built on what the brand calls its sprint-spike fitting theory, one pull and you're locked in. HBX has it in Quiet Shade/Black, Black/Snow White, and Iron Gate/Black, each sitting on that same exposed, hollowed-out Wave sole, and Highsnobiety once called it one of sneakers' great weirdo shoes, which is meant as a compliment. Part trail sandal, part running shoe, part architecture experiment, it's hard to put in a box, and that's kind of the point.
Wave Rider 10
Launched in 2007 the original Wave Rider 10 was designed as a running shoe, and the lifestyle version keeps most of that intact, while adding an AirMesh upper, the original Wave plate, and a multi-color X10 outsole that still looks unmistakably 2000s.
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