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Bad Bunny x adidas Forum PowerPhase Catch and Throw
Bad Bunny x adidas Forum PowerPhase Catch and Throw
Culture Note™️
Origin
Released on 9 February 2022 and part of adidas's Forum line. This release has a leather upper in Sand/Acid Orange/Halo Gold. Bad Bunny is an adidas collaborator, and the Forum PowerPhase is the strangest shape he was given to work with: a mash of the Forum's basketball architecture with the PowerPhase's blunt, cheap looking training sole, a combination that should not work and does. Catch and Throw takes the name from a game and treats the shoe as playground equipment rather than as a luxury sneaker. That instinct suits adidas better than it suits most brands, because the company's cultural standing was never built on restraint: the Superstar became a hip hop object after being a basketball object, and it did so because artists rewrote what it meant rather than because adidas told them to.
Utility
Loud shoes need the rest of the outfit to stand down. Recipe one: baggy light wash jeans, a plain white tee and a cap, letting the sole's bulk and the shoe's proportions carry the whole look. Recipe two: black wide leg trackpants with a solid hoodie, cuffs left long over the collar, which makes the shoe read as a silhouette rather than as a set of details. Wide flat soles pick up grit fast, so knock them out and wipe the sidewalls before the marks set into the foam. Keep it dry, avoid brushing mixed material panels aggressively, and size to your usual adidas basketball fit rather than to a running fit.
Influence
adidas has a long history of handing its archive to musicians and letting them break it. That began with Run-DMC, who wrote My Adidas unpaid in 1986 and then signed the first endorsement deal between a musical act and an athletic company, a moment Questlove has described as hip hop's tipping point. Bad Bunny is the modern continuation of that thread, a collaborator working in Spanish language pop and reggaeton whose adidas releases sell on personality rather than on performance claims. The Forum PowerPhase is the right shoe for that job precisely because it refuses to be tasteful. It is a fan object first and a sneaker second, and it should be worn that way.
Construction
The Forum PowerPhase is a deliberate collision of two builds. The Forum contributes the high volume basketball upper and its ankle architecture; the PowerPhase contributes a broad, flat trainer sole that looks closer to a gym shoe from a school corridor than to a modern sneaker. The Three Stripes sit across the quarter as structural banding, which is how adidas has used the mark since buying it from Karhu Sports in 1952, and on a shoe this busy they act as the one familiar anchor. Collaborator executions like this typically carry their own hits and colour breaks rather than following the standard general release, so treat the details as design decisions rather than as production shortcuts.
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