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Our monthly dispatch of the best things brewing in run culture
The month’s best running drops, collaborations, and special releases
Circle, Currently Running, Melitta Baumeister, Nike, Alex Zono, Minted, Saucony, Raide, Satisfy, Adidas, Balmoral
The marathon major season has come to an end, and with it the madness that surrounds the biggest events in running. The marathon has become a festival of sport beyond the day. We are now faced with hundreds of events, pop-ups, Collaborations, limited editions, for each major, and for now it seems to be exhausting but very fun.
This month was packed with releases, so these are our favorites of the month.
Circle is the Paris running brand that has spent since 2019 building a fully recyclable performance kit. Octobre Éditions is the French menswear label that has spent ten years on a wardrobe of essentials and has never made a technical garment until now. Their first collection together is seven styles across ten pieces, made in Portugal, with Octobre’s design language applied to Circle’s existing platforms: the Agility T-shirt, Feel Good long sleeve, Everystride shorts, men’s leggings, Winterlayer second layer, Run Cap and Windrunner windbreaker. The windbreaker is the highlight: 100% Q-NOVA regenerated polyamide spun, woven and dyed in Italy before assembly in Portugal, windproof and water-repellent, with elastic thumbholes, back vents, and it stows into its own internal chest pocket.
Melitta Baumeister, the German designer based in New York, who created the viral Nike Vomero Premium earlier this year, collaborated with runner Richard Whitehead to create a one-off custom prosthetic running blade, inspired by the famous shoe. About the collaboration, Richard said, “Sport and fashion have the power to change how people see the world and, more importantly, how they see what’s possible.” He was definitely the best-dressed runner on the course.
Currently Running set up in a Greenpoint photo studio on Jewel Street for marathon weekend, half a mile from the McCarren Park track. The NYC Studio Collection features seven limited styles sold only in that room, with prototypes from the 2027 line on display alongside. Runners could drop a bag, head to the track for a shakeout, come back for electrolytes, and get a portrait shot on the studio’s cyc wall.
The Vomero Premium Skeleton is almost entirely black, officially Black and Iron Grey, with small dots printed across the engineered mesh that form the bones of a foot and lower ankle when light hits them. Underneath it is a standard Vomero Premium: dual Zoom Air units, ZoomX foam, high-abrasion waffle outsole, 10mm drop.
Cape Town designer Alex Zono and Seoul technical apparel label Xlim built their debut collaboration around the image of a flower pushing up through concrete, with the runner cast as the flower. The collection includes ten pieces: three T-shirts in black, brown, and lime; three hats in charcoal, blue, and brown; two bandanas with a blooming flower motif in yellow and black; and two Apple Watch straps. The hat uses Xlim’s OG classic trucker silhouette with “I Dig Running” embroidered across the front, Xlim and Alex Zono logos stitched at the side, lunar-dyed cotton-nylon, lightweight mesh panels, and a genuine leather drawcord.
Fall Performance ‘26, cataloged as FWP26-1, covers the running side of Minted New York. It leads with Mach singlets and tees, CirrusMesh singlets in the Mach, Chromium, and Synapse treatments, LinoCotton tees, long sleeves, including the LinoCotton Bi-Layer, and the bottoms the brand is known for: the Core 2-in-1 Lined Short and Core Half Tight, in colorways including Ultraviolet and Red. Outerwear comes through the Coldsnap Jacket in Black and Plum Shadow. The launch film was staged as a retro PlayStation character creation screen, cycling through outfit swaps.
The second Satisfy and Adidas footwear chapter: two shoes. The Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2 Satisfy gets a full Silver Met treatment, metallic silver washed across the midsole and carried through the upper, and it is the first Evo fitted with a full Continental rubber outsole. That last detail addresses the loudest complaint about the shoe. The Adizero Adios Satisfy is built on the Adios 9 with a ripstop checkerboard upper in place of mesh, Lightlock 2.0, full-length Lightstrike Pro and a nylon shank, plus oversized reflective grey three stripes and Satisfy branding at the heel and toe. It comes in Tech Earth, a brown upper over a matching granular midsole, and Easy Blue, pale blue with pearl-metallic reflective stripes.
Raide Research has just released its biggest collection yet. It is mostly focused on ski gear, but some pieces cross cleanly into cold-weather running. The HiO MerinoGrid Long Sleeve, which gives you textured merino into the back in individual 3D nodules that lift the fabric off your skin. The ThermaGrid Beanie is woven grid fleece with a DWR finish. The UL Down Mittens weigh 34 grams in a medium, with the stuff sack integrated into the wrist gaiter. Not so much for running, but the UL DryLoft Down Jacket and Pullover use 1000-fill expeDRY down from Allied Feather.
The Milan brand’s seventh capsule keeps expanding Xformance, its line for high-output efforts. Season 7 includes the Molten Xformance Longsleeve in Magma Violet, the Pond Xformance Longsleeve and Pond Head Gaiter in Purple Haze, the Website Xformance T-Shirt and Xformance Socks in Golgotha Black, and the Blitz Bandana. Cold weather comes through a Merino Poison Fleece and Merino Lahmacun Hat in Bulletproof Yellow, plus a Losa Sweater and Samanto Vest in Sheep Brown.
The second Highsnobiety and Saucony project, after the ProGrid Triumph 4. Two shoes share one palette: the chunky ProGrid Paramount and the Endorphin Pro 5, both in Coffee and Cream. The racer keeps everything, including the mesh upper, dual-layer PWRRUN PB and PWRRUN HG foams, full-length carbon plate, PWRTRAC outsole, and a co-branded footbed. Pulling a carbon racer out of the usual neon and into flat brown is the whole idea, and it works.
Eight styles, almost all insulation and accessories, following the wider Fall 26 launch. The Northview Shell Jacket is the anchor: 3-ply nylon, fully taped seams, adjustable elastic hood and waist, tapered cut, reflective silver heat press label, in Black and Taupe. Around it sit the Winston Facemask, Finchsley Insulated Mittens, Madison Insulated Cap, Hingston Running Beanie, West Hill Cashmere Beanie, Orchard Cotton Beanie and the Cursive Skull Beanie in Burgundy and Navy. Everything is made in North America, which is the part of Balmoral’s pitch that matters most in a winter collection.
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Alfredo is a runner, writer, creative director, and cultural analyst based in Berlin. After years as a casual runner, his move to Berlin transformed his running into a vital practice for mental health and a source of tranquility during cold, early morning runs. His interest in clothes comes from uniforms and sportswear, combined with a love for innovation and research—which might explain why he meticulously charts his winter running gear.
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