notitle x adidas Samba 'Red'
Colorway: Red · Style code: ID6023 · Release date: September 8, 2023 · Price: $205 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: notitle x adidas Samba 'Green' (ID6022) · notitle x adidas Samba OG 'Pink' (IG4198) · notitle x adidas Samba OG 'Cow Print' (ID6024)
Red is the entire colour listing for this one, which is about as blunt as a Samba record gets. The upper is leather, a far simpler construction than the knitted base and imitation cowhide panels on the other shoe from the same notitle project, and that makes this the version reading as a shoe first and a statement second. The model's own lines survive intact underneath: low collar, T-shaped toe overlay, three stripes, flat sole.
Both pairs released on 8 September 2023 as part of a single footwear collection, and no United States retail price is recorded for this one. The cow print make listed at 334 dollars, which places the project at the expensive end of everything ever built on this silhouette. Red has almost no presence in the general catalogue, so even without a pattern or a slogan attached, an all-red pair is a departure from the model's usual dress. Small collaborative runs like this circulate in far lower numbers than the cream and black shoes that made the Samba ubiquitous, and once the colour is set aside that scarcity is most of what distinguishes them.