Adidas Adilette 22 Slides Carbon

Released on 2 September 2022 and part of the Adilette 22 line. This release has a synthetic upper in Carbon/Carbon/Carbon. The Adilette is the oldest continuously relevant thing adidas makes that is not a shoe in the athletic sense: a poolside and locker room slide, built around a single moulded strap and the Three Stripes. The 22 generation redesigns it for a different context entirely, with a thicker, more sculptural footbed and a silhouette that belongs to contemporary streetwear rather than to a swimming club. Carbon is the version that commits hardest to that reading, a flat dark grey with no contrast striping, so the slide becomes an object rather than a uniform item. The Three Stripes still sit on the strap, which is the whole visual argument: the mark adidas bought from Karhu Sports in 1952 works even when it is the only thing on the product.