What makes the Badbo 1.0 silhouette so significant is its status as a completely custom blueprint built specifically for Benito, rather than a standard retro recolor. 

Splicing Y2K basketball geometry, padded skate shoe proportions, and vintage indoor court tooling, the design mirrors Bad Bunny's eclectic personal aesthetic. 

The Night Navy colorway swaps out initial high-contrast palettes for a sophisticated, tonal gradient look inspired by the rich coastal waters surrounding his native Puerto Rico.

Pairing multi-textured, dark blue suede with subtle performance details, the shoe strikes a balance between artistic storytelling and actually looking good. It’s a balance that a surprising number of releases can’t master.

The upper is built from a mix of Night Navy suede, soft leather overlays, and perforated paneling. Strategic pops of bright orange at the top lace loops deliver sharp visual contrast against the deep blue backdrop, while Bad Bunny’s signature star emblem sits proudly on the heel.

The shoe relies on a vintage-inspired off-white midsole that provides a slightly aged contrast to the upper's finish. Overall, the mixture of references across sports and eras means that this design is an amalgamation of Bad Bunny’s influences. Is that not exactly what a signature shoe should be?

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So, naturally, it makes perfect sense that Mark Gonzales got involved.

The Superstar ADV x Gonz takes the familiar silhouette and gives it the skate treatment, without losing what made the original so good. This triple-black version keeps things relatively understated, with a leather upper and extra stitching built for life on and off a board.

Of course, this is a Gonz collaboration, so there’s still a little mischief in the mix. His unmistakable creative touch gives the shoe some personality, even when the colorway is keeping things quiet.

It’s a fitting partnership, really, and one that has been well received time after time. Gonz has spent his career making skateboarding look a little stranger and more interesting, while the Superstar has made a habit of adapting to whatever culture gets hold of it next. Together, they make a classic feel right at home somewhere new. A trick few icons can pull off.

The SUPERSTAR ADV X GONZ is available on adidas' website for $100 now.

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There’s no Dolly Parton without the packaging. Yes, Parton’s impact is indisputable — she racked up 11 Grammys, had more than 50 nominations, and was inducted into both the Country Music and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But picture Parton in your mind, and the mental image will be all those glittering, gaudy rhinestones and six-inch heels; the click-clacking acrylic nails and architecturally sculpted platinum-blonde wigs. 

No artist did sartorial power dressing quite like Dolly. 

Over a career spanning more than half a century, Parton didn’t just wear looks; she engineered her image piece by piece, making the art of dressing as important as her award-winning music. Her signature style — cartoonish “Backwoods Barbie” camp, inspired by everything from lingerie catalogs to town tramps — has inspired a legion of fans. Trying to encompass Dolly’s relationship with clothing would require a dissertation, or a literal book (like, say, her own 2023 memoir Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones). 

That’s what makes the news of Parton’s passing on Tuesday, at age 80, so gutting. It’s as if a supermassive hole — approximately the size of her colossal persona, as opposed to her 5-foot-tall frame — has been ripped from the cultural fabric. Which actually feels fitting, given how important fabric was to her iconography. 

Just look at “Coat of Many Colors.” Few songs distill the “Dolly-ness” of the singer quite like this autobiographical 1971 track. It tells the story of Parton’s mom stitching disused scraps into a patchwork coat, when she was one of a dozen kids living in her parents’ log cabin in rural Tennessee. The singer always came back to the track, translating it into a children’s picture book in 1996 and a TV movie in 2015. 

Parton may have graduated from home-sewn outerwear to extravagant fashion iconography, filling literal warehouses with decades of her looks, but the tension between high and low always sat at the core of her image. So did its sheer Americanness, making her countrified catnip for fashion designers. 

Alessandro Michele-era Gucci put an airbrushed image of Parton on the back of a sleeveless denim jacket for its Spring/Summer 2019 — placing her visage side-by-side with American cultural icons like Mickey Mouse — while Parton superfan Jeremy Scott dedicated not one but two rhinestone-heavy Moschino collections to mining her signature style. She even got in on the action herself, releasing multiple seasons of apparel with Good American and a jewelry line with Kendra Scott.  

Driving it all wasn’t just Parton’s passion for fashion, but a structural framework built on a surgical attention to detail — led by her creative director and chief costumer of 30 years, Steve Summers. Every wig, every rhinestone, every heel was deliberately chosen, reinforcing Parton’s brand: a woman completely in control of herself, who turned the “blonde bimbo” stereotype from a punchline into a point of pride. 

That’s the beauty of Dolly’s clothes; they were never just clothes. Her image was a 4D chess game, becoming both the joke and the rebuttal. Camp, yes, but genius. We may have to learn to live in a post-Dolly world, but the lesson that self-invention can be both armor and art isn’t going away. 

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That doesn't necessarily demand committing yourself to something loud. But a good shirt has personality. It's a funky-formal Camisas Manolo button-up, a paint-splashed OCDB, a loose wool number defined by texture. I was recently drawn to one of Casey Casey's new-season printed shirts whose generous form is defined by a series of dramatic faux brushstroke'd stripes. Evocative but hardly explosive.

Therein lies the key.

This is true for any really good revision of an otherwise ordinary item. The difference between a snoozy and snappy track jacket? Color and material. A jacket cut from handwoven cloth is inherently transcendent even when the form is unchanged. It really doesn't matter how big or slim or long or short all this stuff is. It matters what it's made of.

That's how you can make otherwise classic stuff feel fresh. A little twist. A little nudge. And you can push familiar fare towards newness.

Back to shirts.

The problem with shirts is that, so often, it's assumed that these things must be ordinary. Pale blue, crisp white, calm black. Boring. If you're going to lean into these unadventurous makes, that's when the form has to step up.

Lean into volume and material when the palette is plain. But don't do the opposite. Just because a layer is printed or patterned or painted, need not dictate a simpler shape.

Shirts are surprisingly malleable in that way. They are so innately classic that a funky finish fails to undermine their inherent approachability. It's just that we're tricked by decades of staid menswear to believe that wild shirts are for special occasions. Other way around. The more boring the shirt, the less it need be worn. Save that one for the special occasion.

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If you told me three years ago, freshly graduated and starry-eyed about just how glamorous strutting around a magazine HQ would be, that I’d one day be sitting here writing about how good a pair of track pants are — specifically for the office floor — I’d have laughed in your face. Yet, here we are.

Having once thought denim was already pushing it for the 9-to-5, it took a particularly stylish colleague to convince me that dressing for the office doesn’t have to mean sacrificing comfort. Turns out, you can have both. But not without getting the balance right. In my eyes, adidas’ Firebird pants are that fine line.

The beauty of the Firebirds is the fact that they paved the way for this genre of smart-casual workwear. Granted, they weren’t designed to be worn in boardrooms, but they’ve most definitely, quietly earned their seat at the table.

I’m particularly drawn to this pleated double navy pair. One of the safer colorways? Most definitely. But also arguably the easiest to style, minus the whole navy-and-black conundrum. 

Paired here with a simple blue Oxford button-down and some tonal adidas x Wales Bonner sneaks, and you’ve got yourself a fit good ol' Human Resources can’t pull you up on. They have enough structure to feel considered, but you still get that easy, relaxed fit you’d usually associate with your off-duty wardrobe. Basically, they’re doing the job of a smarter pant without asking you to give up the comfort of a track pair. And for a full day at the office, that’s a trade-off I’m more than happy to make again and again.

I think the key is not treating them like a novelty. Style them with the same instinct you’d apply to any other trouser and they slot in surprisingly easily. For me, that means a good shirt, a decent pair of shoes, and knowing when to leave the rest alone. The Firebirds can handle the rest. My colleague is a testament to that.

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The latest angel to enter this holy ether is the red-and-cream adidas Field Sneaker.

The Y-3 Field Sneaker is an avant-garde retooling of the OG Field Trainer model that made its debut in 2003 and largely set the standard for aughts-era runners.

Here, Y-3 blends the Field Trainer's early-2000s shape with updated premium leather, suede, and that distinct tongue flap, which has become something of the bee's knees where fashion sneakers are concerned.

Of Course, Wales Bonner played a large role in the aesthetic adaptation of extended and fold-over tongue flaps that, believe it or not, serve a functional purpose in covering the laces to create a smooth, striking surface during matches.

Individually, Bonner and Yamamoto have effectively redefined footwear fashion on and off the pitch and recently the two took it a solid step further with the Y-3 Field Lizzard sneaker, the first-ever adidas collaboration between the two.

Talk of who the actual football GOAT is might be up for debate, but Yamamoto and Bonner are running uncontested when it comes to sneakers.

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