Celebrating 20 years, the folks at concepts look to take inspiration from their city’s roots with this upcoming Concepts x New Balance ‘City Rivalry Pack’. While Concepts is a Boston based retailers, they are now one of the growing premier retailers in New York City as they have a location there. So what better way to celebrate than reflecting on the past rivalry their hometown heroes, the Boston Red Sox have/had against the New York Yankees. As you can see a picture of the first sneaker which colorway is obviously reminiscent of the Red Sox, the Yankees colorway has yet to be scene. Teaming up with the W Hotel for their release, the W has released information regarding the collaboration along with a pretty dope release party which will be taking place. Check out the information below, click the link provided and as you can see cncpts also issued a picture of each sneakers respective insoles.
Let us know down in the comments your thoughts on this upcoming collaboration, will they be a DEF Cop or DEF Not.
Concepts pits the cities of the biggest rivalry in baseball history against one another with their latest collaborative project. Be the first to get your hands on both the Boston and New York City Concepts x New Balance “City Rivalry Pack” models and join us at the invite only release party at W Boston, sponsored by Belvedere Unfiltered.
Room bookings include an exclusive early delivery of the sneakers, as well as access to our invite only party. Spaces are LIMITED, details at wboston.com/concepts
UPDATE: Finally we have detailed pictures of both colorways for the upcoming Concepts x New Balance ‘City Rivalry Pack’ which takes influence from Boston and New York respectively. The influence to use Beantown and NYC comes from the rooted rivalry the two cities have in MLB with the Red Sox and Yankees. The folks at CNCPTS had an event for the collaboration in NYC recently and now we are here with confirmed release details. The Boston colorway is which is seen on the New Balance 998 took inspiration from Boston’s Yawkey Way which holds the same color combination of rust and green which can be seen on the sneakers. The NY colorway took its inspiration from the green of the Statue of Liberty and cracker jacks for the insole.
Concepts x New Balance 997 NY
Release Date: April 9th, 2016 (Concepts NYC exclusive and online)
Price: $240
Concepts x New Balance 998 Boston
Release Date: April 11th, 2016 (Concepts Cambridge exclusive)
Online Release Date: April 16th, 2016
Price: $220
W Hotels Opening Day Collaboration
Reserve “Spectacular” and “Cool Corner” rooms and receive both pair
UPDATE: We have a first look at the New York Yankees inspired colorway for the second sneaker involved in the Concepts x New Balance 998 ‘City Rivalry Pack’. The launch event held at the W Hotel takes place on the April 8th while the 9th is a much wider release for both sneakers involved. pics provided were by @whotelboston and @djclarkkent
