Two decades after it first snarled its way into football folklore, one of adidas’ rarest creations has resurfaced — but not in the way anyone expected. For FW26 in Paris, Y‑3 cracked open the archive and resurrected the mythical +F50 Tunit Beast Pack. Only this time, the fangs aren’t for the pitch. They’re for the streets.
Earlier this week we got a first look at Y-3's take on the adidas Predator Precision, converted into sneaker form. Now, it's the F50's turn. Back in 2006, ahead of the World Cup in Germany, Yohji Yamamoto’s Y‑3 imprint dropped a four‑pair capsule that immediately entered collector folklore. Built around Taishi Hayashi’s cult artwork, the “Beast Pack” wasn’t just another conceptual collab — it was pure instinct carved into AdiHex microfiber.
Dragon. Tiger. Eagle. Wolf. Each representing a different facet of speed, aggression, hunger and vision.
Each released in quantities so limited that, for the last 20 years, most people have only ever seen them through grainy forum photos and whispered stories.
But now? They’re back. And they’ve evolved.
On the FW26 Paris runway, Y‑3 sent the Wolf onto the catwalk — a symbolic re‑awakening of a boot that once felt too wild for its own era.
But this isn’t a nostalgia tour. Not from Yohji.
Everything about the revival is sharpened, reframed, and recontextualised for modern culture. Where the original terrified defenders, the new silhouette is designed to prowl the pavement. Where studs once sat underfoot, now there’s a flat, street‑ready platform — wider than anything in the current adidas Football lineup. The +F50 branding? Gone. The artwork? Reverently maintained, but elevated with that unmistakable Y‑3 precision.
It’s heritage, but hacked. It’s performance DNA, but recoded for fashion. It’s Yohji Yamamoto doing what he does best: bending sport into art.
The original +F50 Tunit Beast Pack represented a turning point — when football boots weren’t just equipment but canvases. Yohji Yamamoto saw the pitch as runway long before it was fashionable, and the Beast Pack was the moment he said it out loud.
Bringing it back now, as sneakers, is a full‑circle flex. It taps into a rising wave of football‑fashion crossover, but with the credibility of someone who helped build that wave in the first place.
The +F50 Beast Pack was born ahead of a World Cup. Twenty years later, it returns ahead of another, but this time as an altered beast.
No official release date for the adidas Y-3 +F50 Tunit ‘Beast Pack’, but expect them in the coming months.
