The Adidas Stan Smith has a long and storied history. I won’t belabor it since we already went into it in our Stan Smith Recon review from a little while back, but in short, this sneaker has been everything from the top of the line in athletic wear, a streetwear icon, a J. Crew staple, and even presidential footwear. However, what are you going to do when everyone already has a pair? Look into a collaboration like this one with Senakers N Stuff. By the way, if you didn’t know, Adidas calls their collabs the Consortium line, meaning this sneaker is the Stan Smith Consortium X SNS.
Released at the very end of 2019, the Yeezy 700 V3 is the quintessential shoe in the current wave of Yeezys. More organic in design, more traditional in materials, and – maybe most surprising – more affordable in pricing. This is now what the Yeezy line is. These new models have also been a base for more daring colors. After years of pretty much all yeezys being some variation of beige, tan, taupe, and cream, in just a few models the Yeezy 700 V3 has seen bright blues, bold yellows, and, in December of 2021, this bold Copper Fade colorway.
I think we all thought the same thing when we saw the Yeezy 450. We were getting further and further away from the golden era of Yeezy sneakers. There was no boost. There were the dumpling memes. My guess was that this was going to be another model that was a swing and a miss, and would fade into obscurity.
The Adidas Iniki (also known as the I-5923) was one of those shoes you couldn’t escape a few years ago. Boost was at it’s maximum hype, retro 70’s runners were starting their upswing in popularity, and right in the middle of the two of those were the Adidas Iniki. By combining these, Adidas was able to launch a shoe that ticket a lot of boxes.
Creating a classic sneaker is hard. Every year, a dozen models or more come out of the big sneaker brands only to fade into obscurity once the next Jordan collab comes out. Even harder than that is trying to improve and build on a classic sneaker. This is the loop that Adidas has been in with their Ultraboost line. While the Ultraboost 19 and 20 were not the commercial success Adidas wanted, they have another try with the Adidas Ultraboost 21. Is this another classic, or is this more Jordan 33 than Jordan 3?
Highlights Price: $160 MSRP Pros: Extremely Comfortable, Affordable Cons: Outdated Looks Content: History Looks Fit & Comfort Materials Ease of Care Pricing Value Wrap-up History:
In honor of the 3rd Bill & Ted coming out this year, Kid Cudi and Adidas teamed up to release the original design on the Torsion Artillery Hi. With these still sitting on shelves, is this a worthwhile shoe to pick up?
Five years ago, if you went on most of the men’s fashion forums and asked which classic white sneaker you should buy you would have received one answer – the Adidas Stan Smith. Using google to search reddit, you come up with 63,000 posts mentioning them. While the hype has died down a bit, it’s hard to argue the impact this one sneaker has had.
Like it or not, when the average person thinks of a Yeezy sneaker, they are thinking of the 350 V2. According to StockX, there have been well over 50 colorways of the sneaker released so far and even with the supposed replacement in the 380 nearly a year old, it doesn’t appear like Adidas is planning on slowing down any time soon.
Adidas’ Boost technology was completely revolutionary. It was comfortable, unique looking, and sold out in almost every shoe it was attached once Kanye wore those classic white Ultraboosts. Unfortunately, this left Adidas in a tough position: what do you do next? How do you build upon something that changed the industry? The answer was the introduction of what Adidas calls “4D”.