Adidas has no shortage of high-profile fashion collaborators these days, from Willy Chavarria to Wales Bonner. But the German sportswear giant’s ongoing linkups with the Australian menswear label Song for the Mute—one of the Stripes’s most singular and fruitful partnerships in recent years—has often felt overshadowed by those bigger names. That looks set to change this weekend, however, as the duo unveil their ambitious seventh project: a wide-ranging footwear and apparel collection dubbed ADI007 (no relation to James Bond, unfortunately).
The capsule takes inspiration from the school uniforms that Song for the Mute founders Melvin Tayana and Lyna Ty wore growing up. On the footwear side, that means bold reimaginings of two of Adidas’s most popular silhouettes: the Tokyo and the Samba. The latter is a new spin on the Samba LX Freizeit, a beefed-up iteration of the classic soccer shoe kitted out with a hefty tread sole. SFTM’s take mimics a school boy dress shoe with full leather uppers—in either black or brown—and a perforated toe box.
The sleek Tokyos, meanwhile, take a less formal approach, aiming for more of a gym-class aesthetic with a mesh and nylon upper. There are three sharp colorways on offer: a sandy tan, an electric blue, and a subtle black, all complemented by creamy soles and contrasting suede stripes.
