adidas adiFOM Superstar 'Black Camo'
Colorway: Core Black/Carbon/Cloud White · Style code: IE2298 · Release date: April 15, 2024 · Price: $232 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: adidas adiFOM Superstar 'Black Grey' (ID3923) · adidas adiFOM Superstar 'Core Black' (HQ8752) · adidas adiFOM Superstar 'Triple Black' (GZ2619) · adidas adiFOM Superstar 'Black Carbon' (IE9874) · adidas adiFOM Superstar 'Black Cream White' (JP5679)
The adiFOM idea is simple and slightly absurd: take a shoe defined by leather panels and a rubber shell toe, then mold the whole thing from foam. adidas applied it to the Superstar at the start of 2023, arriving first in plain black and white before the line branched out.
The construction is a single injected EVA body, with a share of the foam derived from sugarcane rather than petroleum, and cutouts standing in for the Superstar's perforated stripes. There are no laces, no stitching and no separate midsole; the shoe slips on like a clog, and the shell toe survives only as a raised ridge in the molding.
Patterned versions arrived once the silhouette had established itself. Camouflage here is printed over the foam rather than pieced together from panels, which is only possible because there are no panels to piece.