"You can trace adidas' Stan Smith trainer to various historical touchstones, to conversations that have scored not just style evolution, but cultural discourse. In the Casual scene of the 1980s, the shoe became shorthand for effortless cool on football terraces across the UK, and was a staple overseas for stars like David Bowie, Harrison Ford and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who wore them in the 1985 wartime thriller, White Nights. Into the 2010s, it was the go-to for designers like Raf Simons, Yohji Yamamoto and Phoebe Philo, as conversations around hyper-minimalism and versatility took hold at runway shows and in broadsheet newsrooms."
"On Saturday night during Paris Fashion Week, deep in the poured-concrete levels of a vast Unesco Heritage Site called Espace Niemeyer, Another Man, BeGood Studios, architectural practice Casper Mueller Kneer and culinary studio We Are Ona staged a multidisciplinary evening with adidas Originals to explore the lineage and enduring relevance of the green and white trainer. Objects of Legacy, the event, was somewhere between a rave, a dinner party and an exhibition, in which names including Pusha T, Willy Chavarria, Gabbriette, Cruz Beckham, Paloma Elsesser, Wisdom Kaye, ASAP Nast, Damson Idris, Raphael Luce, Mark Gonzales, Nia Smith, and Fai Khadra mingled between floors and intricate spatial designs."
The adidas Stan Smith trainer moved from athletic footwear to a pervasive style symbol across decades. The shoe anchored the 1980s Casual scene as shorthand for effortless cool on UK football terraces and became a staple for international stars including David Bowie, Harrison Ford and Mikhail Baryshnikov. In the 2010s designers such as Raf Simons, Yohji Yamamoto and Phoebe Philo adopted the silhouette amid conversations about hyper-minimalism and versatility. The model now functions as both contemporary sportswear and cultural artefact. During Paris Fashion Week, a multidisciplinary Objects of Legacy event at Espace Niemeyer celebrated the trainer’s lineage amid architectural and culinary installations in Oscar Niemeyer’s 1978 building.
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