Asics x Gohar World Gel-DS Trainer SP

Balletcore Gets Pierced

Gohar World has taken the ASICS GEL-DS Trainer SP somewhere stranger than the usual satin-and-ribbon version of balletcore. The low, flat silhouette still nods to a ballet slipper, but it also draws on mid-2000s track spikes. That technical base is covered in jewelry with a deliberately mismatched, slightly unruly character.

Pearls With Peculiar Names

The charms include Chicken Foot Pearl, Potato Pearl, Baroque Pearl, and Black Onyx pieces. Stainless-steel piercings sharpen the look, while a silver-plated copper Gohar Bean adds the New York design studio's own signature. Black and orange laces give the shoe another jolt of contrast and let the wearer decide how loudly to style it.

ASICS Performance Under the Ornament

Beneath the charms is a GEL-DS Trainer built from ASICS SportStyle's running archive. Its narrow proportions and athletic construction keep the collaboration connected to movement, even when the decoration looks more like something found in a surreal jewelry box. Gohar World's campaign follows the same odd logic, staging human legs as the centerpiece of a dining table.

The collaboration arrives September 1. It stands out because the pearls never soften the shoe into something merely pretty. They collide with steel, track references, and loud laces to make a ballet sneaker with a much stranger personality.