Ronnie Fieg x Clarks x adidas 8th Street Samba 'Shadow Green'
Colorway: Shadow Green · Style code: ID7299 · Release date: March 24, 2023 · Price: $291 · Availability: Available now
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Green suede sits deep in the Samba's vocabulary, so this is the less startling of the two 8th Street makes and probably the easier of them to wear. The colour is recorded simply as Shadow Green, with suede handling the upper. 8th Street is Ronnie Fieg's line with Clarks, the English shoemaker, and this project extended that arrangement to take in adidas, putting three names on a single pair.
It released on 24 March 2023 at 220 dollars in the United States, the same day and the same price as the tan Savannah version. Three-way collaborations are rare because they are difficult to organise and the economics of them are awkward, which is part of why this one drew attention beyond the usual audience for either house. The pairing makes more sense than it first appears, too. Both companies have spent decades selling low, flat, suede shoes to people who care about how those shoes age, and the Samba's proportions sit closer to a Clarks Originals shape than to anything in modern performance footwear. Green is where that overlap shows most plainly, since it is a colour both have used heavily.