Kohei Okita x Reebok Club C 85 'EightyOne - Black Khaki'
Colorway: Black/Khaki/The Blues · Style code: FY3017 · Release date: February 10, 2021 · Price: $78 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Reebok Premier Pump Paris 'EightyOne - Kohei Okita Brown' (FY3034) · Reebok Premier Pump Paris 'EightyOne - Kohei Okita Grey' (FY3033) · Kohei Okita x Reebok Club C 85 'EightyOne - White Sand' (FY3016)
Kohei Okita, founder of the Japanese label VAINL ARCHIVE, designed this Club C 85 under Reebok eightyone, a line he launched in 2020 and named after Japan's +81 international dialing code. The Black Khaki colourway released February 10, 2021 at $110, built on a leather upper with The Blues detailing worked into the branding.
Reebok eightyone also produced a Club C Stomper mash-up alongside this pair, folding Okita's design sensibility into two different takes on the silhouette. Here the palette leans dark and muted, trading the model's usual white and chalk tones for black and khaki with a cooler blue accent, a departure from the Club C 85's tennis-court original that still keeps the perforated toe and cupsole underfoot. It's a rare case of the tennis silhouette reappearing inside dedicated Japanese collaborator packaging rather than a general release.