Pharrell Williams x adidas Originals JELLYFISH “Auburn/Timber” Set for September 2026

A brown-and-yellow VIRGINIA Adistar Jellyfish surfaces in official images, marking another entry in Pharrell’s slow-rolling 2026 colorway run for the sculpture sil.

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• A New Colorway Surfaces for a Scarce Sil
• Inside the “Auburn/Timber” Build
• From Paris Runway to Retail
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Pharrell Williams and adidas are adding another colorway to the VIRGINIA Adistar Jellyfish lineup, with official images of a brown-and-yellow pair, styled as “Auburn/Timber,” surfacing ahead of an expected September 2026 release. The style carries the code KK2889 and continues a run of colorways that has kept the Jellyfish in steady rotation since it emerged as one of 2025’s most talked-about sneaker releases under Pharrell’s ongoing partnership with adidas Originals.

Despite that attention, the Jellyfish has stayed genuinely hard to find at retail. The silhouette’s last wide release came in February, and the string of colorways spotted since, on Pharrell himself as well as figures including Chief Keef and James Harden, has mostly played out through sightings and official teaser images rather than broad available. The “Auburn/Timber” pair fits that same pattern: it was first seen on Pharrell’s feet during Paris Fashion Week in 2025, well over a year before adidas has moved toward confirming a retail release.

That scarcity has arguably done as much to build anticipation around the Jellyfish as any single colorway has. Sneaker media has tracked roughly half a dozen distinct Jellyfish colorways surfacing over the past several months alone, each gen its own round of coverage despite few of them reaching a confirmed general rel. The effect has been to keep the silhouette in constant circulation within shoe discourse even as actual pairs remain difficult to obtain, a dynamic that tends to compound anticipation for whichever colorway does eventually get a firm release date.

 

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The Jellyfish backdrop takes its name from the clusters of molded plastic overlays that wrap around the shoe’s upper, styled to evoke a jellyfish’s translucent, layered form. On the “Auburn/Timber” pair, that structure sits over a brown mesh foundation, with earth-toned overlays built up across the toe, sides, and heel. Vibrant yellow accents cut through the darker base at the forefoot, outer cage, heel, and midsole, giving the pair its two-tone identity within an otherwise muted, autumn palette. Black hardware and off-white support pieces separate the shoe’s various layers, a detail that matters more on the Jellyfish than on most silhouettes given how visually dense the design already is before color is factored in.

In Structure, the shoe leans into the same oversized, sculpture lang that has defined the Jellyfish since its debut, with curved support pieces sweeping from the top of the upper down toward the heel to reinforce its exaggerated shape. Reflective detailing and view Torsion branding carry over from other Jellyfish colorways, along with a substantial, heavily built-up sole unit that keeps the shoe’s technical, exo-skeletal aesthetic intact without pushing the design into more conventional show-runner territory.

The “Auburn/Timber” naming, paired with the brown-and-yellow color story, sets this pair apart from earlier Jellyfish releases that have generally leaned on brighter, more saturated palettes or stark monochrome builds. The warmer, more autumn tone here reads closer to a workwear or outdoor color story than the loud, fashion-forward palettes the silhouette has favored so far, giving the “Auburn/Timber” pair a slightly different register within the broader Jellyfish lineup even as its underlying construction stays consistent with prior releases.

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The Jellyfish sits within VIRGINIA, the imprint Pharrell and adidas Originals have used since launch the exaggerated Adistar Jellyfish silhouette to house a growing range of footwear built around similarly maximalist, sculpture design lang. That the “Auburn/Timber” pair’s public debut came on Pharrell’s own feet at a Paris Fashion Week appearance rather than through a formal product unveiling is consistent with how most Jellyfish colorways have reached the public over the past year: spotted first in the wild, official confirmed only once retail plans firm up.

The gap between that first sighting and an official release date, in this case stretching from a 2025 fashion week appearance to a September 2026 retail window, also reflects how deliberately adidas appears to be pacing the silhouette’s rollout. Rather than following the more typical hype-cycle pattern of teaser, hype, and a release within weeks, the Jellyfish’s colorways have tended to surface gradually over many months, with official photography arriving well ahead of any confirmed sale date and actual availability staying tight even once a colorway does reach stockists.

That pacing sets the Jellyfish apart from most of Pharrell’s other adidas work over the same stretch, much of which has followed more conventional collection calendars with clearer lead times between announcement and release. Treating the Jellyfish instead as an ongoing, loosely scheduled colorway rotation, closer in spirit to a running series than a single seasonal drop, gives adidas room to keep the silhouette culturally present without committing to the kind of high-volume release schedule that might dilute its scarcity.

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The Pharrell Williams x adidas Originals JELLYFISH “Auburn/Timber” (style code KK2889) is expected to release in September 2026, priced at $300. Based on the rollout pattern of recent Jellyfish colorways, pairs are likely to become available through the adidas CONFIRMED app alongside a limited run of select global stockists, with a specific date still to be confirmed by adidas. A domestic Japan release date has not yet been announced, and further details are expected as the release window approaches. Given how consistently past Jellyfish colorways have sold through quickly despite limited fanfare around exact drop times, prospective buyers may want to keep an eye on adidas’s official channels and the CONFIRMED app as September approaches rather than waiting for a wider retail rollout that, based on the silhouette’s history so far, may not materialize.