Adidas Wmns Superstar Luxe 'Core Black'
Colorway: Core Black/Core Black/Cloud White · Style code: AQ1250 · Price: $336 · Availability: Available now
Black on black changes how the Superstar reads. The serrated Three-Stripes normally supply the contrast that identifies the shoe across a street; painted out in Core Black against a Core Black upper, they survive only as stitching and edge, and the shell toe stops being the bright white block it is on the classic pair. Cloud White is the single relief in the colour breakdown.
What does not change is the outline. The moulded rubber toe cap, the leather heel patch and the herringbone-tread cupsole all date back to a shoe adidas built for basketball in 1969, and they are why an all-black pair still cannot be mistaken for anything else. The Luxe designation put this women's version at $200, well above the $100 or so a standard Superstar carries.