adidas
-
Beyoncé's BeyGOOD Foundation Teams Up With Adidas and Bread of Life to Provide Texas Winter Storm Relief
Unless you’re a U.S. Senator representing the very state you abandoned for a warmer climate and blamed that recklessly cruel decision on your children, chances are you’ve been wondering how you can help (if you’re able to) assist the victims of the recent winter storm that has ravaged Texas and left approximately 3 million residents…
-
To Washington, D.C. With Love: The Commes Des Garcons x Nike Foamposite 1 Collaboration Might As Well Come With Mambo Sauce
My first experience with the Nike Air Foamposite One, released in 1997—we called them Penny Hardaways or Penny’s, for short—was on the campus of Spelman College during the summer before my freshman year of college. I watched a dude in one of the summer programs we had running (I was in a program for science,…
-
Dripped Up, Iced Down: Adidas Reveals New ‘Icy Park Collection’ From Beyoncé
Not only is “I dream it, I work hard, I grind ‘til I own it” an inspiring line from Beyoncé‘s “Formation,” it’s also the exact game plan I plan on enforcing in order to finally obtain the latest drop in her Adidas x Ivy Park collection. (To be honest, I’m getting real sick and tired…
-
9 Artists I Cannot Be Objective About Because All They Make Is Beautiful Music (and Things)
On December 17, 2020, Scott Mescudi, professionally known to the world as Kid Cudi, dropped a sneaker collabo with shoe and apparel brand Adidas called the Vadawam 326, so named after his daughter, Vada—the 326 is a reference to her birthday, March 26. Cudi’s shoe looked like it could have EASILY been a Yeezy shoe…
-
Set Your Clocks, Because Beyonce's Stylized Adidas Superstar Drops Tomorrow
When it comes to superstars, it’s difficult to conjure a bigger one than Beyoncé, which makes her latest collaboration with brand partner Adidas especially fitting. Our orange Ivy Park boxes may have gotten lost in transit this January, but Bey’s next drop for the brand is slightly more accessible—if you’re ready. As reported by Teen…
-
Dear Stan Smith(s), I Owe You an Apology
I don’t know exactly when my disdain for adidas Originals Stan Smith shoes started. I’m guessing it was somewhere in my 20s, a time culturally defined as grown-and-sexy that featured the coolest of the cool jettisoning super baggy clothing and jerseys in favor of button-ups and lifestyle tennis shoes to match said button-ups—thanks Jay-Z. The…
-
I Think I've Been Using Retail Therapy to Break the "Stay-at-Home" Monotony and Didn't Realize It
I don’t remember exactly what date it was that a general, nationwide “stay your ass at home” proclamation happened, but if memory serves correctly, it was sometime in mid-to-late March. According to school emails for two of my kids, their last day of in-building instruction was Friday, March 13th, which is amazing because it feels…
-
Beyoncé’s Blind Spot? Ivy Park’s Relaunch Was Exceptional—But to Some, Still Exclusionary
The orange boxes have dropped, the orders have been placed, and Beyoncé offered the rare Instagram caption on Monday, thanking fans, followers and faithful shoppers for making her Adidas x Ivy Park launch an unequivocal success, writing: I want to say a huge thank you to all of the incredible human beings who stood in…