It hasn’t been an ideal month for Adidas, but when the German sportswear large might be counted on one factor as of late (or over the past 20 years), it’s discovering methods to squeeze some money out of licensed sneaker offers. Subsequent up: The Simpsons.
Earlier this month we received our first have a look at a Simpsons x Famous person collab, which sees almost your complete floor of the shoe coated in blue fuzz to approximate Marge’s hair. It seems precisely like a pair of outdated Cookie Monster sneakers I as soon as purchased for my (then) two-year-old:
One other shoe within the lineup, one leaked earlier immediately and this time a Stan Smith, options Homer as an alternative. Whereas initially seeming quite a bit much less concerned than the Marge shoe—possibly there’s a balding joke right here, I don’t know—flipping the shoe round reveals this one has some fuzz too, however solely on the heel:
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Just like the meme itself, that is one thing you possibly can chuckle at whenever you see it on the web, however spending cash to put on it in your ft? Hrmmmmmm.
Not that Adidas will care. Whereas the corporate’s Yeezy collaboration has turned to ash, and had been price large cash at its peak, Adidas’ bread and butter within the sneaker enterprise (like Nike’s), isn’t in excessive profile, restricted releases however in two different locations: for essentially the most half, it’s the on a regular basis roster of venerable classics (the Famous person, the Stan Smith, slides, and so forth) and to a lesser extent it’s tie-ins like this.
We’ve seen this quite a bit over the previous couple of years, as the corporate has launched sneakers based mostly on the whole lot from Recreation of Thrones to Pokémon to South Park to a earlier Simpsons launch, and whereas many of those come have come throughout wanting a bit naff, some (Pokémon particularly) have been nice!
There’s no phrase on a launch date or value for both of those.