Wales Bonner x adidas Samba 'Cream White Bold Green'
Colorway: Cream White/Bold Green/Easy Yellow · Style code: GY4344 · Release date: June 23, 2022 · Price: $410 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Adidas Wales Bonner Sailor Jacket (JM8217) · Adidas Wales Bonner Quilted Jacket (KE9956SHAMAR) · Wales Bonner x adidas Samba 'Black' (FX7517) · Wales Bonner x adidas Samba 'Scarlet' (GY6612) · Adidas x Wales Bonner Shorts 'White' (KR8773)
Suede, not leather, carries this one, and the colours are listed as Cream White, Bold Green and Easy Yellow. Set against the black and the cream-and-brown pairs that opened the Wales Bonner partnership in 2020, it is a deliberate brightening. Green and yellow are among the least used shades in the Samba's catalogue, and putting them on a cream suede base makes both read louder than they would over white leather. The model's lines go untouched, so every bit of the change lives on the surface.
It released on 23 June 2022 at 160 dollars in the United States. By that summer Grace Wales Bonner's adidas work had moved from a curiosity to one of the most closely watched release schedules in footwear, and the Samba was at its centre. The designer, who founded her London label in 2014 and took the LVMH Young Designer Prize in 2016, also develops adidas kits for the Jamaican Football Federation, and the green and yellow here sit in the same palette that work draws from. A scarlet make released the same day, giving the season two saturated options where earlier collections had offered only muted ones.