Adidas x Bristol BYW

February 06, 2018

Luke Tadashi, founder of Bristol Studio fuses forces with adidas for a collaboration on their cutting-edge Boost You Wear Crazy Sneakers. This iteration is inspired by both Tadashi's love for basketball, and a blend of family nostalgia— an appropriate element to add to this new adidas style, with its wonderfully heavy-handed 90's aesthetic approach.

Made in Los Angeles and constructed of Japanese fabrics, the sneakers display a combination of familiarity and quality, finding a subtle way to work in personal refrences. His family's pilgrimage to the United States from Japan which appear as the well crafted, while rugged, exterior of the shoe, a sleek way to use streetwear, while speaking to the struggles and successes of establishing oneself, elsewhere. This is a balanced shoe: footwear for basketball, but with a focused, avant-garde aesthetic, as appropriate for Gen-Z trendsetters as it is fashionably accessible to their grandmothers.

The shoes will be available during All Star Weekend in adidas Consortium Stores and Nice Kicks LA.

Media courtesy of adidas

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There’s something inherently nostalgic about football footwear. The scuffed leather, the folded tongues, the idea that performance and personality once shared the same surface. With its latest collaboration, VEJA taps into that memory and hands it over to Magliano to rework, and make its own.

Drawing from vintage football boots, the silhouette leans into Magliano’s instinct for unconventional tailoring. A folded tongue sits across the upper, referencing classic boots while subtly shifting how the shoe functions and feels. Made from a single perforated piece, the flap introduces asymmetric lacing, turning a familiar detail into something deliberately off-balance.

That sense of play carries through in the styling. There's three sets of interchangeable laces to go with the three different colorways: black with cream accents, white with sharp black contrast, and a pearlescent pink.

Through all of this, the Panenka emerges with a new personality.