Wales Bonner x adidas Samba "Silver Metallic"
The Wales Bonner x adidas Samba "Silver Metallic" (IG8181) released Friday, June 9, 2023.
Original retail (2023): $200 · Lowest resale ask: $580 on Flight Club (Nov 14, 2026)
Colorway: Silver Metallic/Cream White/Grey One · Style code: IG8181 · Release date: June 9, 2023 · Lowest resale ask: $580 · Availability: Available now
Source: GOAT's catalog · stores checked Nov 14, 2026, 4:21 PM ET
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About the Wales Bonner x adidas Samba "Silver Metallic"
Grace Wales Bonner's method has been to leave the shoe's pattern alone and change what covers it, and a metallic patent upper is the most extreme version of that approach she had attempted up to this point.
It released on 9 June 2023 at 200 dollars in the United States, a step up from the 160 and 180 dollar suede and leather pairs the partnership had been producing, and five months ahead of the hair-on pony run that pushed the materials further again. Silver also does something the collaboration's earlier colours could not. It removes the shoe from its own history. A cream or green Samba still looks like a terrace shoe, while a silver one does not look like anything the model has ever been, which is a useful trick for a designer who has deliberately refused to redraw the silhouette.
Written with AI from brand specs; facts checked against our catalog data on Sep 18, 2026.