Dover Street Market's adidas Sneakers Are Quite Quiet
The year is 2024, and the adidas Samba hype is still going strong. adidas is keeping the general release colorways stocked on shelves, while it seems a new Samba collaboration emerges by the day. Who's next in line, you may ask? Dover Street Market is ready for its turn at the soccer shoe.
Home to COMME des GARÇONS' several imprints and many other brands (ranging from Nike to Rick Owens), Dover Street Market also stocks some pretty straightforward sneaker collaborations. The retailer's shoe team-ups typically arrive in black and white — with the exception of its greyish brown New Balances — and present a new detail like a cool fabric swap. And Dover Street Market's Sambas maintain the tradition.
In ditching its signature leather, Dover Street Marker's Samba shoes embrace a fresh matte material (looks like nubuck) for the upper.
The collaborative Samba sneakers preserve the model's signature smooth "T" toe but also offers up the velvety feels on the heel as well.
Crisp white leather Three-Stripes top the seemingly nubuck spots, while Dover Street Market's logo replaces that bright blue adidas branding on the tongue.
Of course, Dover Street Market's Sambas arrives in a black colorway, fitting right into the DSM's family of quiet shoe collabs.
Dover Street Market's Sambas are a normal take, that's for sure. It even had people drawing comparisons to JJJJound's minimalist design approach with its sneakers (especially its own Sambas). Like the Montreal-based design studio, simple is just the DSM way.
Dover Street Market's adidas Samba sneakers dropped at DSM's pop-up store at the Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles, alongside other exclusive projects like Sky High Farm Workwear x KAWS x Nike and AIREI's burning-hot ASICS collab, to name a couple.
Now, the brand's Samba shoes are scheduled to launch on Dover Street Market's e-shop on Thursday, May 16. In the market for extra normal-looking Sambas by Dover Street Market, your time is now (well, if you can successfully check out).
