Simone Ashley joined the crowd at the U.S. Open on Monday in New York City, where her courtside look leaned on a sneaker collaboration that’s been driving conversation since spring: the sold-out Adidas x Clot Gazelle in “Crew White.”
The style, which launched at the end of March, recasts the Gazelle with a natural crepe sole and a silk base embossed with tonal Clot iconography. A gold “Gazelle” stamp at the quarter marks the collaboration, one of several that Edison Chen and Clot have developed with Adidas Originals over the past two years. Its understated colorway has made it one of the hardest pairs to track down, trading heavily on the resale market since its spring release.
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Clot’s Adidas run has prioritized experimentation with heritage models. The Gazelle alone has seen several iterations, from espadrille builds with beaded stripes to cupsole versions framed as the most traditional of the bunch. The crepe-soled variant Ashley wore at the Open pushed the silhouette into new lifestyle territory, echoing earlier sole swaps on the Superstar and the more recent Stan Smith, which featured a beaded heel tab. An upcoming Clot x Adidas Anthony Edwards 1 is expected to extend the partnership into performance basketball.
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Chen’s pivot to Adidas followed the end of his two-decade Nike partnership in 2023. With Clot based in Hong Kong, he has long used sneaker collaborations to weave Asian cultural narratives into global streetwear, from reflexology Air Maxes to tear-away silk Air Force 1s. Adidas has positioned the relationship as a way to refresh archival icons like the Gazelle for a new generation of collectors, running in parallel with Grace Wales Bonner’s award-winning Adidas collaborations on the Samba, Gazelle Indoor and Karintha Lo.
Against that backdrop, the “Bridgerton” star’s choice reads less like a casual sneaker swap and more like a savvy fashion signal. She paired the sought-after sneakers with Slvrlake’s Grace wide-leg jeans in optic white and a Polo Ralph Lauren Bear sweater layered with gold Tiffany T1 hoops and an IWC Ingenieur watch. A small Prada Arqué bag and Kimeze’s angular Zawe sunglasses completed the sporty, quiet luxury look.
In July, Ashley filmed “The Devil Wears Prada 2″ in black pumps worn with knee socks, a costume detail that pushed the school-uniform code into sharper focus. At the U.S. Open, she took the conversation courtside. In Clot’s crepe-soled Gazelles, Ashley tapped into the tournament’s dual identity as both sporting event and runway for heritage sneakers recast as luxury objects.