END. x adidas Samba 'Consortium Cup'
Colorway: Ecru Tint/Supplier Colour/Magic Beige · Style code: IE0167 · Release date: November 21, 2023 · Price: $291 · Availability: Available now
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adidas put the Samba in front of its Consortium partners in late 2023, and this is the version END. returned. The upper is suede, and the colour list reads Ecru Tint, a supplier-specified shade and Magic Beige, a warm low-contrast range that leaves material and panel shape to carry the design instead of a colour-blocking exercise. The proportions are faithful throughout: low collar, T-shaped toe overlay, three stripes along the quarter, flat sole underneath. Nothing has been exaggerated, which is the harder choice when a limited release invites the opposite.
It went on sale on 21 November 2023 at 135 dollars in the United States, a modest premium over the 100 dollars adidas was asking for a general-release Samba OG that year. A parallel entry from Sneaker Politics landed three days earlier in a far brighter blue and red scheme, and setting the two beside each other shows how differently partners read the same brief: one went quiet and tonal, the other went loud. Beige Sambas were everywhere in 2023, which cuts both ways for this one. It sits easily with everything else in a wardrobe, and it has to work harder than a bolder pair to justify the extra money.