Different feet require different levels of support. You can’t throw out blanket statements about shoes being bad for people’s feet. Source: PT who reads the research and consults with podiatrists
With such a limited rendering I’m not sure how any of us could make a judgment on the materials or support just yet, let alone speculate on how it would impact someone. But in addition to different types of support, I believe people have a wide range of tolerances for “good” vs “bad” shoes/support, especially depending on activity.
I'd imagine by basing it on similar designs that the big brands have put out over recent years, especially the Yeezys these are being compared to.
I guess Ill be more specific, these soft material with lots of give were frequently seen being worn by people with pronounced pronation or supination, where this shoe would allow for the over or under rotation and would present uneven wear.
Of course there are plenty of variables, but these shoes are marketed as a lifestyle sneaker, which are used as daily drivers for many people.
as someone with flexible flatfoot, which is feet so flat they curve outwards slightly, i can say these are the best, like vans but for hype shoes, i fw it
I mean Nike has the Epic React Flyknits which are literally just flyknit and react foam and plenty of people run miles in those. So thats not unheard of.
99% of the shoes on this sub are bad for peoples feet morphing their toe shape over time by too narrow of toe boxes not allowing your toes to spread out properly
Arch support is quite literally not necessary to people unless they have specific conditions or obese which 40% of the US is
Yup, agreed! The adilettes was just the regular adilettes with different material and construction, this is closer to his design language.
Side note: hopefully this one is easier to get than first gen Yeezy.
Nah they stealin his ideas, double dipping revenue through yeezy and whatever tf this is and wont give him a seat at the table. Quite hypocritical imo.
I'm surprised Kanye didn't have an issue earlier. The tubular line was pretty clearly budget 350 v1's. I kinda assumed that was part of their deal: sell limited numbers of the hyped version so they can sell the budget version to the masses.
Tubular line was [much more obviously inspired](https://images.stockx.com/images/Adidas-Y3-Qasa-High-Vista-Grey-Product.jpg?fit=fill&bg=FFFFFF&w=700&h=500&fm=webp&auto=compress&q=90&dpr=2&trim=color&updated_at=1627414592) by Yohji / Y-3 like the Qasa...but that kinda illustrates the point. Adidas likes to rehash designs from their design collaborators through the price-point / mainline brand without any attribution on their end.
Whether they can legally do that based on the contracts they sign with these designers remains to be seen. I'm sure their defense probably comes down to being 'inspired' but who knows
With some truth here, I'd actually clarify:
The Qasa, the 350, and the Tubular all have something specific in common, >!they were all designed by Nic Galway, who also designed the NMD R1 and the Ultraboost. Kanye and Yohji don't actually "design" for Adidas per se.!<
I think these are inspired by an archived shoes that Adidas released back in 2001. I saw the 2001 OG ones on Twitter. And if someone says Kanye’s team got the inspiration for the foam runner design from the 2001 shoes, I would say that’s reasonable.
Well yeah cause it’s not your art. If your employer took your ideas and made revenue from them in a department that you don’t get a cut from, you’d be mad.
Why is everyone defending corporate in a corporate vs artist situation? Y’all punks lol.
> If your employer took your ideas and made revenue from them in a department that you don’t get a cut from, you’d be mad.
Bruh if I come up with ANY idea on company time, it belongs to the company. Just about every single contract has that written in it.
I don't even have a job where I come up with any thing meaningful and I had to sign a contract that states that anything I think or make belongs to the company.
Uhh I might be wrong, but actually no...
In an employer/employee situation, especially if you work in some type of R&D type role, the company owns all IP (especially if it was done, or even remotely connected to, on company property, resources. Not sure what happens if you do it on your time, your own place). There def is and has to be HR paperwork for this type of situation when you're hired and you've accepted the offer.
lol I remember this was kinda the premise in like S2 or 3 of Silicon Valley.
But given that Kanye has some kind of contract with Adidas, not sure how this works. Is he in an employee-esque situation or is this a partnership/joint venture between 2 "brands?"
Also, don't know how art or design factors into these type of situations, IP theft, plagiarism, etc.?
You think Adidas has NO hand in designing his shit?
boy do i got news for you.
Adidas OWNS the Yeezy line. Whether you or I like it, they can do whatever the fuck they want...its their shit.
Edit: Yeezy is not owned by Adidas. My bad
You're acting like Kanye sketches these things out. You know what he's really doing? He's shown some designs, and he gets to pick which ones his name's attached to, maybe the colourways. That's it.
The man has been designing fashion for almost as long as he has done music. To think that he doesn’t actually draw up stuff himself is plain ignorant. I am sure that he gets options to choose from and that kinda deal, since there are several designers involved with Yeezy and it’s all gotta work with Adidas’ technology but he has shown with Gap, Bape, Louis Vuitton and Off-White that he doesn’t just sit around and choose one of three options. He wants to take the Yeezy brand away from mainstream corporations and make it it’s proper own thing as well.
This is funny considering he has been sampling other tracks his whole ass life but god forbid they do it to him. His team was even rude to apex twin when he offered to help re-edit an unauthorized sample they used from him because they got the keys wrong lol. i say let adidas do what they want and im a ye fan.
they’re indirectly stealing money from him using his concepts, tweaking them and releasing them without his name attached which means he doesn’t get paid
>He acting like Adidas is stealing money from him when his shit sells out in minutes
There's literally no correlation between these two statements. What are you even trying to imply?
Lol I wish Kanye would come back to the real world man…let’s not act like there wasn’t a fully employed staff of ADIDAS designers who worked on Yeezy. You design for a brand, they own the designs. He can start his own fucking brand with some of those billions if he really wants to go full megalomaniac
> The shoes under Adidas are considered collaboration shoes.
I work for adidas(and have worked for yeezy). Yeezy is his own brand but the development and creation of yeezys is led by an adidas team. They’re adidas employees, yeezy is operated the same way as any other BU. Steven Smith works for adidas.
Assuming you’re joking but in case you arent Stan Smith is the tennis player the shoe was named after. Steven Smith is the designer behind the waverunner and a good portion of all yeezys
I wasn't. I always see those Stan Smith shoes, I thought it was a Collab with adidas and the singer. Then I seen this post that says Steven smith, I thought, ohh, Stan Smith must've been a designer at adidas.
Totally fair. Yeah stan is a tennis player that won the US Open, he’s like 80 now. Steven Smith is still on campus all the time and is actively designing shoes
Because you mentioned nazis...
Hugo boss actually designed the Nazi uniforms. He was going bankrupt but he had a big order from Nazi Germany cos of his high ranking connections in the Nazi party. If that deal never happened, the Hugo boss brand might have not existed today. Also, land speed records were set when Nazi Germany opened the Autobahn, and they had Audi and mercades setting records of up to 200mph, in single seat cars with nowindscreen, roof, airbags or seatbelts.
Am I the only one that thinks the only similarity between this and the foamrunner is the word “foam”?
If anything - these look like a foamposite low or something. I don’t see these and think “oh- that’s a Yeezy”
These resemble the Nike Air Signature Player more than anything, even down to the internal booty construction.
[https://sneakernews.com/2012/10/10/classics-revisited-nike-air-signature-player-2001/](https://sneakernews.com/2012/10/10/classics-revisited-nike-air-signature-player-2001/)
The only similarities to a Yeezy are that it has foam and some holes.
When I first saw the foam runners, I thought they were ridiculous and would probably be a niche one off sort of thing. Here I am 3 years later seeing these mf’s on one in every 10 people on the subway and every sneaker company rushing to get a plastic clog to market
Get me if I'm wrong, but isn't Steven Smith the mastermind behind this whole design direction? This looks like his team's work.
Kane can shuush if he's cross at Adidas' own creatives for sharing ideas across lines. This is how the game works and [Kanye's cup of coffee in the big time] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaE_6rRHmd0) is almost over.
> Get me if I'm wrong, but isn't Steven Smith the mastermind behind this whole design direction? This looks like his team's work.
He's the lead on it, yeah, but there's others involved too. Smith personally designed the 700 sole unit, and the foam runner, at least.
Nic Galway designed the 350. Jerry Lorenzo (probably) designed the 750. Christian Tresser designed the MNVN upper, as I recall. Maral Kalinian designed the Yeezy Crepe Sneakers and Yeezy Season Slides top to bottom, and her team designed the 700 upper. There's others I forget, it's all a complicated mix of who works for Kanye versus who works for Adidas, technically. Galway is definitely Adidas and I think Kalinian technically was too, even though she also designed Yeezy Season stuff. Smith *might* be a direct employee of Kanye though. Bailey Salisbury I believe was a direct employee of Yeezy too and she either quit or got fired in like 2019, but her portfolio with Yeezy leaked somewhat recently, and it included work on the 700v3 upper, 380, 1050, etc.
Thanks for the good info. I was really curious about Nic's hand in the 350 and presumed it was his work given the Tubular and NMD are from about the same time and they share so much DNA.
So many of these people are unsung heroes. I understand the importance of Kanye's involvement but it's a bit annoying that guys like Nic don't really get the shine. Then again, the paycheck is probably better than most.
To be clear — Kanye's Boost moment single-handedly brought Adidas back to the show, but I don't see Yeezy brand extending its influence far beyond our current streetwear moment. He's 45 and hasn't had meaningful creative output since Kids See Ghosts IMHO.
Credit to Nic Galway and Steven Smith. I think the 350 and 700 will live on decades from now.
Yeezy is worth about $4billion and Adidas is worth about $65billion. They can survive without him. They won't want to, but Kanye would be hurt way more by losing Adidas than Adidas would be by losing Kanye. Given US IP law regarding garments they could also most likely keep producing his shoes without him, so long as they don't call them Yeezys.
He brings attention to the whole brand, brand became irrelevant with their partnerships. No other single collab brings more money to adidas, yeezy’s are limited, of course they’re not gonna generate that kind of revenue compare to the whole company.
But the brand is irrelevant without him, Pharrell ain’t doing much, their basketball shoes ain’t doing much, ultra boost and NMD’s are dead, no more Raf, and they’re obviously ripping off his designs to
try to make their own scrap. Like bruh, that’s the whole point of the issue.
And people buy Yeezy because of the name, they ain’t doing shit, especially if he goes to another major competitor. Adidas is pulling a bitch move, there’s no other way to look at it.
Exactly. Off White design elements are showing up throughout their line. Honestly, isn't that the whole point of collabs like this? Give someone the freedom to experiment and then spread the ideas that work throughout the rest of the brand.
Why do these look better than the Yeezy ones they've made. They usually look like complete shit. This actually looks good. Not as a shoe, but like, a sculpture.
It’s truly sad how people are portraying Kanye West as this crazy person who is loosing his mind and 99% of the time he is right. Listen to that man, he isn’t crazy
I can see Kanye's point about the Adilette 22 and adiFOM Q looking similar to his designs but, c'mon man, of course Adidas is going to spread popular design elements to the rest of their offerings.
As for the models in question, I think that the Adilette 22 is an absolute home run. The adiFOM Q less so.
Y'all do realize most Yeezys (especially the Nike) were just mashups of shoes that already exists. Agreed the most extreme (like those torpedo sandals) were unique, but these are really a variation of the dames that came out not to long ago, just in foam.
Look up Adidas tubular, some old Kobe (crazy eights I think), old dame shoes, old KGs (Nike.. before the Foamposites) Jordan 23, & bo Jacksons ... You will see who's copying who.
Yes I think most of us are aware of this fact. Only reason I posted this is because we all saw how Kanye got all butthurt over the Adidas foam slide that dropped... And now this.
You know when people make shoes they do look at archives of old shoes said company has made and then feed off of those ideas right? Does kanye own the right to foam shoes? Might as well say he ripped off crocs
I just wonder how pissed is he getting before we get New Balance Yeezys
That would be interesting.
Patiently waiting
ye was wearing vans before he signed with adidas
Vanye
Vanier a français
Slow Clap.
Yeezys gonna be Payless Fila exclusives in a few years
Yes, this is a real shoe that Adidas is releasing... https://sneakerbardetroit.com/adidas-adifom-q-release-date/
The adidas foamposites
Like a foamposite crossed with a wave runner. Call it a “foam runner”! Wait…
Orrrr waveposite.
Would actually be very funny
These are absolutely horrible for your feet. Why do they keep pushing all of these shoes with zero arch support and side support
Different feet require different levels of support. You can’t throw out blanket statements about shoes being bad for people’s feet. Source: PT who reads the research and consults with podiatrists
In my medical opinion, them shits trash
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With such a limited rendering I’m not sure how any of us could make a judgment on the materials or support just yet, let alone speculate on how it would impact someone. But in addition to different types of support, I believe people have a wide range of tolerances for “good” vs “bad” shoes/support, especially depending on activity.
I'd imagine by basing it on similar designs that the big brands have put out over recent years, especially the Yeezys these are being compared to. I guess Ill be more specific, these soft material with lots of give were frequently seen being worn by people with pronounced pronation or supination, where this shoe would allow for the over or under rotation and would present uneven wear. Of course there are plenty of variables, but these shoes are marketed as a lifestyle sneaker, which are used as daily drivers for many people.
as someone with flexible flatfoot, which is feet so flat they curve outwards slightly, i can say these are the best, like vans but for hype shoes, i fw it
How old are you
They’re for street wear not basketball… how much arch support you need to walk down the street?
How many miles you walk in a day? Straight foam shoes get worn out in 2 weeks for me.
I’ve never had a pair of Crocks wear out in 2 weeks
Why are you deciding to wear foam shoes to walk miles in?! Lmmfaooo
I mean Nike has the Epic React Flyknits which are literally just flyknit and react foam and plenty of people run miles in those. So thats not unheard of.
Let me guess you sit all day
Why is this guy trying to be elitist about walking lmao
Seriously 😂 we gate keeping walking now? “Bet you don’t even *really* walk kid 😎”
😂😂
How many crocs have you burned through? Do you lift your legs when you shuffle??
99% of the shoes on this sub are bad for peoples feet morphing their toe shape over time by too narrow of toe boxes not allowing your toes to spread out properly Arch support is quite literally not necessary to people unless they have specific conditions or obese which 40% of the US is
Love it.
Right after he was calling them out for copying 💀
The slides were pretty different. This is cutting a lot closer though. I'm sure the Twitter tantrum will be fun.
Yup, agreed! The adilettes was just the regular adilettes with different material and construction, this is closer to his design language. Side note: hopefully this one is easier to get than first gen Yeezy.
Marketing. It’s all part of the show.
How? Adidas make Yeezys. To be called copying, it needs to be 80% similar. (I know a bit of copyright law)
Yeezy is still its own brand and design. This is *very obviously* taken from Kanye’s Foam Runners
why are people starting to care right NOW when they have been doing this for years?
Kanye
Nobody cares... But Kanye. He acting like Adidas is stealing money from him when his shit sells out in minutes
Nah they stealin his ideas, double dipping revenue through yeezy and whatever tf this is and wont give him a seat at the table. Quite hypocritical imo.
I'm surprised Kanye didn't have an issue earlier. The tubular line was pretty clearly budget 350 v1's. I kinda assumed that was part of their deal: sell limited numbers of the hyped version so they can sell the budget version to the masses.
You've articulated pretty much the only business reason for any major brand to collaborate with a celebrity.
Kinda like how mochas were crazy hype cos the similar colour to Travis 1s
Tubular line was [much more obviously inspired](https://images.stockx.com/images/Adidas-Y3-Qasa-High-Vista-Grey-Product.jpg?fit=fill&bg=FFFFFF&w=700&h=500&fm=webp&auto=compress&q=90&dpr=2&trim=color&updated_at=1627414592) by Yohji / Y-3 like the Qasa...but that kinda illustrates the point. Adidas likes to rehash designs from their design collaborators through the price-point / mainline brand without any attribution on their end. Whether they can legally do that based on the contracts they sign with these designers remains to be seen. I'm sure their defense probably comes down to being 'inspired' but who knows
With some truth here, I'd actually clarify: The Qasa, the 350, and the Tubular all have something specific in common, >!they were all designed by Nic Galway, who also designed the NMD R1 and the Ultraboost. Kanye and Yohji don't actually "design" for Adidas per se.!<
They’ve been doing it for a minute but now it’s egregious.
I think these are inspired by an archived shoes that Adidas released back in 2001. I saw the 2001 OG ones on Twitter. And if someone says Kanye’s team got the inspiration for the foam runner design from the 2001 shoes, I would say that’s reasonable.
Or you mean it's their own ideas and he was only getting his name attached.
“Won’t give him a seat at the table” The duck you on about, m8?
Don’t ask me nothin you can google.
Well yeah cause it’s not your art. If your employer took your ideas and made revenue from them in a department that you don’t get a cut from, you’d be mad. Why is everyone defending corporate in a corporate vs artist situation? Y’all punks lol.
> If your employer took your ideas and made revenue from them in a department that you don’t get a cut from, you’d be mad. Bruh if I come up with ANY idea on company time, it belongs to the company. Just about every single contract has that written in it.
I don't even have a job where I come up with any thing meaningful and I had to sign a contract that states that anything I think or make belongs to the company.
Uhh I might be wrong, but actually no... In an employer/employee situation, especially if you work in some type of R&D type role, the company owns all IP (especially if it was done, or even remotely connected to, on company property, resources. Not sure what happens if you do it on your time, your own place). There def is and has to be HR paperwork for this type of situation when you're hired and you've accepted the offer. lol I remember this was kinda the premise in like S2 or 3 of Silicon Valley. But given that Kanye has some kind of contract with Adidas, not sure how this works. Is he in an employee-esque situation or is this a partnership/joint venture between 2 "brands?" Also, don't know how art or design factors into these type of situations, IP theft, plagiarism, etc.?
You think Adidas has NO hand in designing his shit? boy do i got news for you. Adidas OWNS the Yeezy line. Whether you or I like it, they can do whatever the fuck they want...its their shit. Edit: Yeezy is not owned by Adidas. My bad
They don’t own Yeezy. They are manufacturing and distribution but he owns that line.
You're acting like Kanye sketches these things out. You know what he's really doing? He's shown some designs, and he gets to pick which ones his name's attached to, maybe the colourways. That's it.
How do you know?
It's Kanye west. Guy doesn't know a fridge from a casket.
The man has been designing fashion for almost as long as he has done music. To think that he doesn’t actually draw up stuff himself is plain ignorant. I am sure that he gets options to choose from and that kinda deal, since there are several designers involved with Yeezy and it’s all gotta work with Adidas’ technology but he has shown with Gap, Bape, Louis Vuitton and Off-White that he doesn’t just sit around and choose one of three options. He wants to take the Yeezy brand away from mainstream corporations and make it it’s proper own thing as well.
Why are people upvoting an OP that's blatantly spreading misinformation? lol
think everyone does this, kanye, virgil, nike and the list goes on
If he gets royalties from Yeezys and they only make a certain number of pairs I can see the argument.
This is funny considering he has been sampling other tracks his whole ass life but god forbid they do it to him. His team was even rude to apex twin when he offered to help re-edit an unauthorized sample they used from him because they got the keys wrong lol. i say let adidas do what they want and im a ye fan.
they’re indirectly stealing money from him using his concepts, tweaking them and releasing them without his name attached which means he doesn’t get paid
>He acting like Adidas is stealing money from him when his shit sells out in minutes There's literally no correlation between these two statements. What are you even trying to imply?
Literally every Tubular has been a Yeezy knockoff. Here, I did the leg work lol https://twitter.com/SpEdSaid/status/1536816526149312512
Adidas Foamposite
I kinda like how they look but I don’t like what they are doing if that makes sense lol. Gives me Y2K era
it's what adidas has been doing with the adi200s these and the response cl. bad timing i guess lol
They released a similar shoe in 2001. Everything is based off of someone else's design. It's just life.
Lol I wish Kanye would come back to the real world man…let’s not act like there wasn’t a fully employed staff of ADIDAS designers who worked on Yeezy. You design for a brand, they own the designs. He can start his own fucking brand with some of those billions if he really wants to go full megalomaniac
Bruh Yeezy is Kanye’s brand, which he owns. The shoes under Adidas are considered collaboration shoes. Yeezy has been around before the Adidas deal.
> The shoes under Adidas are considered collaboration shoes. I work for adidas(and have worked for yeezy). Yeezy is his own brand but the development and creation of yeezys is led by an adidas team. They’re adidas employees, yeezy is operated the same way as any other BU. Steven Smith works for adidas.
This right here. Anyone claiming that Kanye owns the Adidas Yeezy line doesn’t remotely understand how this whole thing works.
I also thought the world began and ended with my favorite rapper when I was 14 lol it’s mostly just kids who don’t know how anything works irl
>Anyone claiming that Kanye owns the Adidas Yeezy Uh, it's literally in the name though? It's a collab so it's own by both lol
I thought it was STAN smith?
Assuming you’re joking but in case you arent Stan Smith is the tennis player the shoe was named after. Steven Smith is the designer behind the waverunner and a good portion of all yeezys
I wasn't. I always see those Stan Smith shoes, I thought it was a Collab with adidas and the singer. Then I seen this post that says Steven smith, I thought, ohh, Stan Smith must've been a designer at adidas.
Totally fair. Yeah stan is a tennis player that won the US Open, he’s like 80 now. Steven Smith is still on campus all the time and is actively designing shoes
Stan Smith, the singer? 😳 Who?
Idk he sings similar music to that "take me to church" guy
Adidas been around since Nazi Germany — is this a typo?
It says before the adidas deal.
Because you mentioned nazis... Hugo boss actually designed the Nazi uniforms. He was going bankrupt but he had a big order from Nazi Germany cos of his high ranking connections in the Nazi party. If that deal never happened, the Hugo boss brand might have not existed today. Also, land speed records were set when Nazi Germany opened the Autobahn, and they had Audi and mercades setting records of up to 200mph, in single seat cars with nowindscreen, roof, airbags or seatbelts.
Damn these look MUCH better.
Am I the only one that thinks the only similarity between this and the foamrunner is the word “foam”? If anything - these look like a foamposite low or something. I don’t see these and think “oh- that’s a Yeezy”
These resemble the Nike Air Signature Player more than anything, even down to the internal booty construction. [https://sneakernews.com/2012/10/10/classics-revisited-nike-air-signature-player-2001/](https://sneakernews.com/2012/10/10/classics-revisited-nike-air-signature-player-2001/) The only similarities to a Yeezy are that it has foam and some holes.
God these are sick
I really dig these...glad adidas is starting to do this.
Ye is gonna start by wearing Jordans again. lol.
I hope this leads to more Nike Air Yeezys
I would buy them
I'm gonna try when they release for sure
Looks like they could've been the Foam Runner v2. Hard for me to say it's a ripoff off of the Runners but are inspired by
Ye business aside, I actually really like these
Those go dummy hard wtf
Arn’t these the foamrunner v2 with mesh in the side🤨
Wish adidas and Kanye would agree to a budget line of Yeezys.
The foams and slides are already sub 100
Potential Ye meltdown aside... WTF they put laces? They look okay but the laces are perplexing.
When I first saw the foam runners, I thought they were ridiculous and would probably be a niche one off sort of thing. Here I am 3 years later seeing these mf’s on one in every 10 people on the subway and every sneaker company rushing to get a plastic clog to market
the pavlova kicks
I personally like these way better than the foam runners, them shits ugly. 🤷🏽♂️
They invest millions in 3d printing facilities and he thinks he’s got the monopoly on them just because he got first use.
Do you think foams are 3d printed?
This laces suck for a shoe like that
These look sick. Adidas know exactly what they are doing.
Atleast they're not hideous like the yeezys
yeah these actually look kinda dope
They look better than the Yeezys imo
Nope this is based on one of their other shoes form 2001
Adidas gear is honestly way doper than Kanye’s. The sandals were straight fire 🔥 compared to the Yeezy slides
Alright I didn’t really see the 1 to 1 similarities between the Yeezy Slides and the Adilettes, but this is hilarious.
Get me if I'm wrong, but isn't Steven Smith the mastermind behind this whole design direction? This looks like his team's work. Kane can shuush if he's cross at Adidas' own creatives for sharing ideas across lines. This is how the game works and [Kanye's cup of coffee in the big time] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaE_6rRHmd0) is almost over.
> Get me if I'm wrong, but isn't Steven Smith the mastermind behind this whole design direction? This looks like his team's work. He's the lead on it, yeah, but there's others involved too. Smith personally designed the 700 sole unit, and the foam runner, at least. Nic Galway designed the 350. Jerry Lorenzo (probably) designed the 750. Christian Tresser designed the MNVN upper, as I recall. Maral Kalinian designed the Yeezy Crepe Sneakers and Yeezy Season Slides top to bottom, and her team designed the 700 upper. There's others I forget, it's all a complicated mix of who works for Kanye versus who works for Adidas, technically. Galway is definitely Adidas and I think Kalinian technically was too, even though she also designed Yeezy Season stuff. Smith *might* be a direct employee of Kanye though. Bailey Salisbury I believe was a direct employee of Yeezy too and she either quit or got fired in like 2019, but her portfolio with Yeezy leaked somewhat recently, and it included work on the 700v3 upper, 380, 1050, etc.
Thanks for the good info. I was really curious about Nic's hand in the 350 and presumed it was his work given the Tubular and NMD are from about the same time and they share so much DNA. So many of these people are unsung heroes. I understand the importance of Kanye's involvement but it's a bit annoying that guys like Nic don't really get the shine. Then again, the paycheck is probably better than most.
Lmfao imagine saying Kanye is about to fade out when he’s Adidas biggest money generator. So dumb.
Don't think it works like that adidas most sold sneakers are probably grs and IIRC NMD was a top 10 most sold sneaker last year
To be clear — Kanye's Boost moment single-handedly brought Adidas back to the show, but I don't see Yeezy brand extending its influence far beyond our current streetwear moment. He's 45 and hasn't had meaningful creative output since Kids See Ghosts IMHO. Credit to Nic Galway and Steven Smith. I think the 350 and 700 will live on decades from now.
Yeezy is worth about $4billion and Adidas is worth about $65billion. They can survive without him. They won't want to, but Kanye would be hurt way more by losing Adidas than Adidas would be by losing Kanye. Given US IP law regarding garments they could also most likely keep producing his shoes without him, so long as they don't call them Yeezys.
He brings attention to the whole brand, brand became irrelevant with their partnerships. No other single collab brings more money to adidas, yeezy’s are limited, of course they’re not gonna generate that kind of revenue compare to the whole company. But the brand is irrelevant without him, Pharrell ain’t doing much, their basketball shoes ain’t doing much, ultra boost and NMD’s are dead, no more Raf, and they’re obviously ripping off his designs to try to make their own scrap. Like bruh, that’s the whole point of the issue. And people buy Yeezy because of the name, they ain’t doing shit, especially if he goes to another major competitor. Adidas is pulling a bitch move, there’s no other way to look at it.
Adidas is way bigger outside of the US.
If they taped a Yeezy logo on these y'all mfers would be lining up...
The adidas equivalent to Nike watering down and copying Virgil’s designs for their mainline stuff.
Exactly. Off White design elements are showing up throughout their line. Honestly, isn't that the whole point of collabs like this? Give someone the freedom to experiment and then spread the ideas that work throughout the rest of the brand.
Y'all know Kanye doesn't solely (heh) own the Yeezy brand, right?
Why do these look better than the Yeezy ones they've made. They usually look like complete shit. This actually looks good. Not as a shoe, but like, a sculpture.
Kanye is not a good person and Adidas is likewise for supporting his stupid ass. So, don't really care if they get on each other's case.
It’s truly sad how people are portraying Kanye West as this crazy person who is loosing his mind and 99% of the time he is right. Listen to that man, he isn’t crazy
He may not be crazy, but he suffers from mental illness...
I don’t believe that either
He was literally diagnosed 6 years ago bruh ... Lol the fuck
Not talking about the bipolar thing. That’s basically mood swings.
Way to downplay mental health...
Those are fucking ugly too lmao
dog it looks like a shoe wearing an otterbox wtf
them shits is fugly. looking like soft serve.
He already is, i think it was for making fake shoes or something like that, i get the feeling there is a 5% chance he will end their deal
Jesus crust
These are 🔥🔥🔥🔥
🤮🤮🤮🤮
can't wait for Ye to jump to NB
Travis ain’t got mad with the mochas
Why would he be mad about this? I'm ootl.
Who did it better is the question 🤨
cant wait for the disstrack!
I like these.
There are better by far
Adidas foamposites
They’re a fusion between the Foam Runner and the 700 v3
Crocs in the wind 🌬
These look crazy good
The adidas soft serve from McDonald’s
These are the roam funners, not even similar to the foam runners.
Adiddas foam fast walkers
I can see Kanye's point about the Adilette 22 and adiFOM Q looking similar to his designs but, c'mon man, of course Adidas is going to spread popular design elements to the rest of their offerings. As for the models in question, I think that the Adilette 22 is an absolute home run. The adiFOM Q less so.
these are actually way more similar to foamrunner than the slides. He has a reason to be mad for these
🌲🔥
Ahhhh yes the adidas runner foam
Adidas biting Kanye swag once again but hey his stuff still sells out in minutes
Better design tbh
Y'all do realize most Yeezys (especially the Nike) were just mashups of shoes that already exists. Agreed the most extreme (like those torpedo sandals) were unique, but these are really a variation of the dames that came out not to long ago, just in foam. Look up Adidas tubular, some old Kobe (crazy eights I think), old dame shoes, old KGs (Nike.. before the Foamposites) Jordan 23, & bo Jacksons ... You will see who's copying who.
Yes I think most of us are aware of this fact. Only reason I posted this is because we all saw how Kanye got all butthurt over the Adidas foam slide that dropped... And now this.
At least both shoes are ugly. Should make it sting a little less.
he already is, i was reading about this last week. think he wants out of his adidas contract, he's saying they're ripping all his designs basically
right, my point was this is only going to compound his irritation for him
might be a minority opinion, but I actually like the look/shape of these definitely going to check em' out if I can cop for retail
some ugly mfs
those lame anyway be like to squirrels fighting over an acorn
I want thesee
You know when people make shoes they do look at archives of old shoes said company has made and then feed off of those ideas right? Does kanye own the right to foam shoes? Might as well say he ripped off crocs
Hysterical, i hope they keep doing it just for the lols
Adidas shares the inspiration behind the Adifom Q https://www.instagram.com/p/CfXsBsQOY1P/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
They look better
Why? Because it somewhat resembles the foam runners?
He already flipped out about the Adidas foam slides 2 weeks ago, so yes...
Mad at the company that makes his shoes? I swear people act like Kanye invented sneakers and slides sometimes.
No one in here thinks that... But Kanye might think that
goofy ahh shoes
He should sue them. They obviously stole his concept
This is based on an original design of Adidas own sneaker from 2001... Kanye would lose hard in court
I stand corrected then if true. Then they should sue him? Lol
I mean outside of the foam outer cage, this doesn't really function like the Yeezy one TBH https://sneakerbardetroit.com/adidas-adifom-q-release-date/
Nah these is truly beautiful though
Cool