Oyster Holdings x adidas Samba OG 'Red'
Colorway: Red/White/Gold Metallic · Style code: G26700 · Release date: May 31, 2019 · Price: $290 · Availability: Available now
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Red leather with gold branding is a confident set of choices for a shoe that spends most of its life in white, black and green. adidas records the colours as Red, White and Gold Metallic, and gold has long been part of the model's own furniture through the trefoil on its folded tongue, so it reads as an amplification of something already present rather than an import. The pattern is untouched, meaning the flat last, the T-shaped toe overlay and the three stripes come through exactly as they always do.
It released on 31 May 2019 at 130 dollars in the United States, a moderate premium over general-release pricing of the period. Oyster Holdings worked with adidas across several silhouettes in the late 2010s, and this Samba came out of a stretch when the model was a quiet part of the catalogue rather than a focus of it. That timing is the most interesting thing about the pair now. Collaborative Sambas from 2019 were made in small numbers for a small audience, without the demand that would have turned the same project into a major release three years later, so they surface far less often than their better-known successors.