adidas Wmns Superstar 'White Snakeskin'
Colorway: Cloud White/Wonder White/Better Scarlet · Style code: HQ1918 · Release date: September 26, 2023 · Price: $104 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: adidas Wmns Superstar (S76148) · Adidas Wmns Superstar (CG5464) · Adidas Wmns Superstar (CP9629) · Adidas Wmns Superstar 'White' (AQ1214) · Adidas Wmns Superstar 'White' (S85139)
Reptile embossing has been a recurring Superstar finish for decades, and adidas returned to it here in near-white. The leather upper is pressed with a snakeskin grain in Cloud White, Wonder White fills the supporting panels, and Better Scarlet supplies the single warm accent in an otherwise pale shoe.
The embossing does the same job that studs or prints do on other makeups: it adds surface interest without touching the outline. Serrated Three-Stripes, moulded shell toe, leather heel patch and herringbone-tread cupsole are all standard, which is the point. The Superstar tolerates finish changes far better than shape changes. It was a women's release, dated September 26, 2023, priced at $105, sitting just under the leather variants that ran $110 to $120 that season.