The adidas Stan Smith Metallic Gold is also floral
The adidas Stan Smith Metallic Gold is a playful switch up of the modern tennis classic. Coming together with a Brazilian streetwear brand, adidas manages to breathe new life into an icon.
Following the latest updates of silhouettes like the adidas Busenitz or the Ultra Boost Clima, adidas goes to back to what really is essential. The Stan Smith, one of their classic models, gets some floral feeling.
The FARM Company decks this shoe out in colorful graphics representing the Amazon. The floral tone here lends an appropriately colorful touch to a shoe that excels at underplaying its brilliance.
The story of the Stan Smith is well known and often underappreciated. It wasn’t just the first tennis shoe to receive the heavy sponsorship services of an elite athlete. Beyond that, it was also the most experimental in a time when tennis wasn’t ready for much change.
In a sport that required a traditional outfit from head to toe, this shoe was special. Among other things, the Stan Smith was blazing trails thanks to adidas’s insistence that it comes with a leather upper as standard. How did that break with traditions, you ask? Well, every tennis shoe worth its price at the time was taking on canvas as its base.
Fortunately for sneakerheads and tennis fans, the Stan Smith takes off to remarkable success. It even inspires a wave of sponsorships and millions spent on ad campaigns featuring tennis players. Before the Stan Smith, it was an incredibly rare thing for a tennis player to be considered a darling of advertising as well.
The years following this adidas legend’s debut would bring about some of the most recognizable sneakers of all time, all stemming from the tennis court of all places! For its part, the Stan Smith’s simple and streamlined form live on in its popularity today.
It’s not anyone’s first choice as a match day performer. But, it has become synonymous with effortless style. Throwing on a pair of Stan Smith’s is just the solution that every budget-conscious and stylish sneakerhead needs.
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