Superstar
Everyone’s wearing these chunky Nike Air Max in every color now, even guys in business suits. I get it. But my favorite shoe has always been the Adidas Superstar, and I’ve never needed to question that.
There’s something about the shape that works. It’s so minimal it’s almost boring until you see it on a foot, and then it’s perfect. The three stripes, the shell toe, the way it sits. It doesn’t try.
Adidas keeps releasing new versions, which I’m genuinely torn about. Do I want them changing something that’s already right? Not really. But they do it anyway, and I always look. Three new colorways came out: white with black stripes, white with red, white with yellow. All the heritage angle, referencing the 80s, invoking a golden age that probably never existed.
I want the classic. White with black stripes, nothing else. That’s always been the version that makes sense. It looked right forty years ago and it looks right now, and probably always will.