atmos x FACE x adidas Samba OG 'Embroidered Daisies'
Colorway: Core Black/Footwear White/Gold Foil · Style code: H03848 · Release date: November 19, 2022 · Price: $210 · Availability: Available now
Embroidery is the whole idea here, and it is a technique this model has almost never carried. The daisies worked into the upper give the shoe a decorative surface that neither colour nor material could supply on their own, and the colour record backs them with Core Black, Footwear White and Gold Foil, so the flowers land on a dark ground with metallic branding beside them. The leather upper and the standard OG pattern underneath go unchanged, which keeps the embroidery reading as an addition rather than a redesign.
The release came on 19 November 2022 at 100 dollars in the United States, a general-release price for what was effectively a limited collaborative pair between adidas, atmos and FACE. That is worth noting on its own. Most collaborative Sambas from this stretch carried a premium of anywhere from 60 to 200 dollars over the standard shoe, and holding this one at the base figure made it unusually accessible for a project with two partners on the box. November 2022 also sat early in the model's surge, before the calendar filled with premium partner work, which is part of why the pricing looks out of step with everything that followed.