Pharrell's Humanrace and adidas Drop Mars-Themed Adizero EVO SL Pack

Pharrell Williams' Humanrace label and adidas are releasing the Adizero EVO SL "Mars" pack on March 21, priced at $160 for the sneaker, $120 for a matching track jacket, and $70 for coordinating shorts, available through adidas.com, the Confirmed App, and select retailers, with Humanrace also carrying the collection in-store and online.

The colorway reads immediately as something pulled from a geology field kit: two shades of red dirt-inspired mesh across the upper, an orangish red on the heel and outsole, and black reserved for the Three Stripes branding and Humanrace co-branding on the lateral heel. The official color designation is Preloved Brown/Core Black-Orange, style code KJ8809. It is a departure from the earlier Humanrace Evo SL drops, which leaned on white and black bases with green, blue, and brown stripe branding. This time the palette goes warmer, earthier, and decidedly more atmospheric.

The shoe is built around full-length LIGHTSTRIKE PRO foam, the same midsole technology found in adidas' elite racing lineup, but here configured without the stiffening elements that define competition-oriented runners. It borrows design cues from the Adios Pro EVO 1 and redirects them toward daily use, pairing an engineered mesh upper with a ride tuned for softness and response over long training blocks rather than race-day efficiency. The result sits at an interesting price-to-technology ratio: $160 for a shoe carrying pro-grade foam in a format that doesn't demand pro-grade commitment from its wearer.

Campaign photography shot in Painted Hills, Oregon reinforces the extraterrestrial framing without resorting to CGI. The landscape's layered mineral formations, striped red and gold and ochre across eroded hillsides, stand in convincingly for Martian terrain. A runner navigating that environment becomes the collection's central image, and the messaging frames running as a mindful daily ritual rather than a performance metric. "Inspired by the rugged terrain and dust of Mars," Hypebeast noted of the collection's direction, "the collection frames running as a mindful, daily practice of wellness rather than just a measure of distance."

The apparel completes the picture with equal functional intention. The track jacket runs slightly more fitted than a traditional silhouette, with an adjustable bottom hem and lightweight construction that keeps it from reading as a costume. The mid-thigh shorts offer a loose, breathable cut suited for outdoor movement. Together they price out at $190 for the set, which, alongside the $160 sneaker, brings a full head-to-toe Mars kit to $350.

Signups for the March 21 drop are currently open on the Confirmed App. The collection is available in unisex sizing. A release year discrepancy exists across sources, with one outlet listing March 21, 2025 and another explicitly stating March 21, 2026; given today's date of March 20, 2026, adidas.com and the Confirmed App are the most reliable points of confirmation before the drop window opens tomorrow.