Adidas Superstar OG 'Footwear White'
Colorway: Footwear White/Core Black/Off White · Style code: CQ2475 · Release date: March 28, 2020 · Price: $2452 · Availability: Available now
OG means adidas went back to the archive rather than forward. The tooling and proportions follow the earlier Superstar rather than the modern general release, and the sole is finished in Off White so a new pair looks like one that has been sitting in a box for years.
Above it, the recipe is the original: Footwear White leather, Core Black on the serrated Three-Stripes, gold script on the leather heel patch, and the moulded rubber shell toe that gave the shoe its nickname and its durability on a basketball court. It arrived March 28, 2020 at $125, a premium over a standard leather pair, during the year adidas marked the model's fiftieth anniversary. That anniversary programme produced a lot of reinvention; this one went the other way and simply rebuilt the shoe as it was.