adidas Maité Steenhoudt x adidas Samba ADV 'Black White'
Colorway: Core Black/Cloud White/Core Black · Style code: GZ5271 · Release date: March 16, 2021 · Price: $502 · Availability: Available now
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Black suede with a white contrast is standard skate-shoe dress, and this ADV keeps to it. adidas records the colours as Core Black, Cloud White and Core Black, which puts white in a single slot and leaves everything else dark. The ADV is the adidas Skateboarding version of the Samba, carrying added support and harder-wearing materials so the pattern survives contact with griptape, and suede is the material that job asks for.
It released on 16 March 2021 at 80 dollars in the United States. That is the same figure the general-issue ADV carried and below the 100 dollars adidas charges for an adult Samba OG, which says something about how the skate line prices its work: these are made to be worn out and replaced, not kept. Rider-associated colourways sit oddly inside that logic, since they draw buyers who will never step on a board, but holding the price at a working level keeps the shoe within reach of the people it was designed around. A dark, plain make with one white accent is the version most likely to end up doing the job it was built for.