576 "Red"

Hanon is an Aberdeen shop with one of the longest and most respected collaboration histories in the New Balance world, and the 576 sits at the center of it. The store’s Northern Sole series reworked the made-in-England 576 around the Northern Soul movement, the British dance and music subculture, and the partnership has run for years on the strength of the shop’s taste and New Balance’s willingness to let a retailer drive the design. Each pair in the program is designed by Hanon and assembled at New Balance’s Flimby factory in the United Kingdom, which gives the collaborations a craft and a sense of place that mass production cannot match.

The 576 is the ideal canvas for this kind of work, a premium suede and leather runner that British retailers have long treated as a regional institution. This red colorway carries the rich material mix the Hanon projects are known for, the suede and full-grain leather build that rewards close inspection. The made-in-UK 576 occupies a specific corner of sneaker culture, more about quiet quality and local pride than hype, and Hanon has been one of its most important voices. For the archive the Hanon 576 documents a side of the hobby that runs parallel to the American story, a Scottish shop and an English factory turning out limited runners for people who care about where and how a shoe is made.