Raf Simons x adidas Replicant Ozweego 'Black Cream'
Colorway: Core Black/Core White/FootwearWhite · Style code: BB7988 · Price: $389 · Availability: Available now
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Raf Simons was born in Neerpelt, Belgium in 1968, trained in furniture and industrial design, and only moved into menswear in 1995. His early collections pulled from youth subcultures and music; from around 2004 the work turned toward shape and volume for their own sake. He has since run Jil Sander, Christian Dior and Calvin Klein, and joined Prada in 2020.
His adidas work began with a limited five-design footwear collaboration announced for the Fall-Winter 2013 season and became a running series after that, built mostly by pulling models out of the adidas running archive and pushing them somewhere less comfortable to look at.
The Replicant Ozweego is that method applied to an archive adidas runner. Leather and mesh are cut open with ventilation holes across the upper in black and cream, translucent plastic inserts carry the branding at the tongue and heel, and the midsole is thickened into two visible tones sitting on a separated outsole in the same colors.