Adidas Campus 'Blue'
Colorway: Blue/Running White/Chalk White · Style code: BZ0086 · Release date: January 2019 · Price: $40 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Adidas Campus J 'Ash Blue' (DB1349) · adidas Campus 00s 'Marine Blue' (JH9610) · adidas Campus ADV 'Royal Blue' (JP8204) · Adidas Wmns Campus 'Ash Blue' (B37936) · Adidas Wmns Campus 'Mineral Blue' (DB1019)
Archival styling drives the Campus 'Blue': a Blue nubuck upper, leather Three-Stripes in Chalk White across the quarter panel and matching uppercase 'Campus' branding nearby, with Running White handling the trim underfoot. adidas released the shoe in January 2019 at a retail price of 80 dollars.
Comfort details include a textile sockliner and a reinforced panel across the toe for added durability, sitting on the model's usual rubber outsole. The low-top shape and nubuck upper trace back to the Campus' years as a defining shoe of hip-hop and B-boy style in the 1980s and early 1990s, a look this archival-leaning colorway calls back to directly. The same suede-and-Three-Stripes formula also carried the Campus through Britain's terrace scene in the 1990s, and this Blue makeup keeps that low-profile, no-frills construction rather than the bulkier build later Campus 00s releases would introduce.