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adidas Superstar White Black
adidas Superstar White Black
Culture Note™️ / ملاحظة الثقافة
Origin
Designed by Horst Dassler and released on 29 May 2014 as part of adidas's Superstar line. This release has the Cloud White/Core Black/Cloud White colourway. White with black is the Superstar's original argument, and the Superstar is the most consequential shoe adidas has ever made. It launched in 1969 as a low top of the Pro Model with a moulded rubber shell toe designed to protect players' feet under the basket, and by 1973 it was reportedly worn by more than 75 percent of NBA players, with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and George Gervin among the early adopters. Then it left the court entirely. In white with black Three Stripes, this is the version that hip hop adopted wholesale, and the one adidas has sold in enormous volume ever since: more than 15 million pairs in 2015 alone, its best selling shoe of that year.
Utility
First outfit: straight leg raw denim, a white tee and a black bomber, which is close to how the shoe was worn when it first left the court. Second: black wide trousers with a grey hoodie, letting the shell toe be the only bright point at ground level. It fits daily wear, gigs, travel and anywhere a plain white shoe would be too plain. The Superstar generally fits true with a roomy toe box, though many wearers size down half. Keep the shell toe wiped clean, use shoe trees or paper to hold the shape, and clean the upper before dirt sets rather than after.
Influence
Run-DMC released My Adidas on 29 May 1986, unpaid, and at Madison Square Garden that July they told the audience to hold up their shell toes while an adidas executive watched from the crowd. Thousands did. The deal that followed was the first endorsement between a musical act and an athletic company, and Questlove has called it hip hop's tipping point, the moment that opened the whole model of music and brand partnership. adidas did not commission the song. It got handed a second cultural life it had not designed, and this colourway is the shoe that carried it.
Construction
The shell toe is the whole engineering story. It is a moulded rubber toe cap, built to take repeated abuse at the front of the shoe, and it has become the brand's most copied silhouette detail because nothing else identifies a sneaker so instantly from a distance. The Three Stripes in black over a white upper are structural in origin, stitched on to reinforce the midfoot, a role they have held since adidas bought the mark from Karhu Sports in 1952. White uppers and white rubber both discolour, and the shell toe collects scuffs first because it is doing its job. Clean the shell with a soft cloth and mild solution, keep the upper protected, and avoid bleach based products which yellow rubber.




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