The XC-72 Drives New Balance’s Maximalist Revolution
As heritage continues to provide the backbone of strong position on the scene, a new design vanguard is giving the company’s modern offerings a chiropractic kick. Enter the , the latest maximalist effort from the motoring mind of Charlotte Lee.
Having already made waves with the tide-turning and its sleek sibling, Lee’s new XC-72 design – joining its predecessors in NB’s ‘Shifted’ collection – is an outlier, breaking past the audacious threshold already stretched by the 327.
‘The XC-72 is the physical embodiment of retro-futurism,’ says Lee. ‘I took inspiration and specific elements from the past and reimagined them for today’s consumer.’