Innovation is always grounded in history. Cutting-edge concepts are born from the archive. How can we design for the future without an appreciation for our past?
Introducing Never Made, a revolutionary footwear concept inspired by the past, designed for the future. Past icons from the Adidas archive are reimagined, as their soles are swapped with the brand’s most innovative toolings. Featuring eight distinct silhouettes, the newest Adidas Originals footwear concept provides a window into the brand’s design process. Inspired by internal design workshops, which see the brand’s designers explore unexpected combinations, the collection is a manifestation of ideas into reality.
Instantly recognizable 70’s aesthetics are reimagined through the Line of Descent series, which sees iconic archival-inspired silhouettes merged with current day technologies. Reimagined atop 4D carbon-printed tooling, the vintage-inspired I-5923 silhouette is transformed into the Ix4D.
COUNTRYxKAMANDA
Similarly, the COUNTRYxKAMANDA merges aggressive all-terrain-inspired detailing from two eras.
MARATHONx5923
Rounding off the Line of Descent series is the MARATHONx5923, which sees one of the brand’s earliest running silhouettes remade with BOOST technology, bringing the past into the future in unexpected ways.
RISINGSTARxR1
MICROPACERxR1
BOSTONSUPERxR1
Looking to one of the brand’s modern day icons, the genealogy of NMD series revisits three key sources of inspiration from the 80’s, placing the silhouettes atop NMD_R1 tooling to create the MICROPACERxR1, BOSTONSUPERxR1, and RISINGSTARxR1.
ZX930xEQT
98xCrazyBYW
Turning to one of the most important decades in Adidas Original’s recent history, the genetically Modified 90’s Tech series sees two iconic footwear concepts, Feet You Wear and EQT, brought firmly into the future – reimagined atop BOOST tooling to create 98xCRAZYBYW and ZX930xEQT.
Inspired by our past in order to inform the future, the Never Made collection seeks to reinvent the design process through experimentation with unexpected combinations.
The Never Made collection retails from SGD200 to SGD300 at Adidas Originals Pacific Plaza and online at https://www.adidas.com.sg/nevermade.
*Please note that the Ix4D will not be available in Singapore.
