The adidas Archive. The Footwear Collection

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The legendary sneaker brand has just unveiled a new Taschen tome dedicated entirely to stylish treads. With over fifteen years in the business of skateboarding, Adidas are no longer an industry outsider but are a pioneering brand who invest in skateboarding and help to further its development.

Accompanied by a foreword by designer Jacques Chassaing, the book conveys the driving force behind Adidas, all the epic moments and groundbreaking prototypes. What we discover goes beyond mere design; in the end, these are just shoes, worn out by their users who have loved them-but they are also first-hand witnesses of our sports, design, and culture history, from the beginnings of the Dassler brothers and the founding of adidas until today. The first installment of the archive will be landing very soon, and we’ll be adding amazing content along the way, with cultural insights, the stories behind the names, celebrations of icons and, of course, all the forthcoming releases that are landing.

During high-traffic product releases we have extra security in place to prevent bots entering our site. The adidas story is one of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and conceiving the all-around sports shoe, worn by the likes of Lionel Messi, Run DMC, and Madonna.

With every stain, tear, rip, smudge or faded signature, the reader learns more about the sneaker and its wearer, from Lionel Messi and Madonna to Run DMC.

A label that’s not short in heritage, we’ll be chronicling its rich history in both the entwining worlds of sportswear and streetwear, while also delving into its cultural prominence today. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs later, this book presents a visual review of the adidas shoe through almost 200 models. This collection now makes up the "adidas archive", one of the largest, if not the largest archive of any sports goods manufacturer in the world-which photographers Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jäger have been visually documenting in extreme detail for years.