Adidas Campus 00s Scarlet Gum

Released on 15 March 2023 and part of adidas's Campus line. This release has a suede upper in Better Scarlet/Cloud White/Off White. The Campus is adidas at its most stripped back: a suede upper, three stripes, a flat sole and nothing else to argue about. That restraint is the direct inheritance of a company that started with Adolf Dassler making shoes in his mother's laundry room in Herzogenaurach, where every panel had to justify itself. The 00s version is a specific act of curation, taking the proportions from the era when the Campus was thicker through the midsole and blunter at the toe rather than slimming it down to a modern last. Scarlet with a gum sole is the loudest way to buy it. Red suede against warm rubber is a pairing adidas has used across its Originals silhouettes for decades, and it works because the two materials age at the same speed.