Adidas updates classic Stan Smith in latest Craig Green collab

Adidas’s ongoing collaboration with British designer Craig Green sees them offering two new takes on the classic Stan Smith shoe for the new season with the Adidas Originals CG Boost Stan and CG Split Stan.

The Boost “bridges iconography from Adidas’s past, present and future [and] rethinks the very nature of footwear tooling,” we’re told. It has a die-cut upper sat atop a midsole and foxing all composed entirely of Boost material. It comes with Three Stripe perforations, printed Stan Smith logos on the tongue and printed Trefoil branding on the heel moustache, just like the original silhouette. It’s available in white, black or silver.

Meanwhile the Split sees Green “respectfully disrupt the heralded Adidas icon as the familiar form is sliced in half with a middle rubber protrusion inserted between the two segments. Pushing the leather and rubber sneaker to new extremes, the shoe comes in three monochromatic colourways — white, black and khaki.

The launch is being supported by a campaign created with long-time collaborator, Dan Tobin Smith, that “celebrates the design of each shoe: exploring the textural quality of the CG Boost Satin while also oscillating between mirrored surfaces to highlight the dynamic lines of the CG Split Stan”.

The shoes launch on Thursday through the Adidas webstore, via Confirmed and select retailers.