The Adidas Archive: The Footwear Collection
£25.00
notes
More than 100 years ago the brothers Adolf (Adi) and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Since then, adidas has become one of the world’s best known sneaker brands, and this book forms a visual history of their shoe design showcasing 200 models. To further develop and tailor his products to athletes’ specific needs, Dassler asked them to return their worn footwear when no longer needed, with all the shoes eventually ending up in his attic. This collection now makes up the ‘adidas archive’, one of the largest archives of any sports goods manufacturer in the world—which photographers Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jäger have been visually documenting for years, featured here, together with the personal stories of each individual wearer.
Dimensions
22cm (8in) x 16cm (6in)
Features
notes
More than 100 years ago the brothers Adolf (Adi) and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Since then, adidas has become one of the world’s best known sneaker brands, and this book forms a visual history of their shoe design showcasing 200 models. To further develop and tailor his products to athletes’ specific needs, Dassler asked them to return their worn footwear when no longer needed, with all the shoes eventually ending up in his attic. This collection now makes up the ‘adidas archive’, one of the largest archives of any sports goods manufacturer in the world—which photographers Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jäger have been visually documenting for years, featured here, together with the personal stories of each individual wearer.
Insights
There are the shoes worn by West Germany’s football team during its miraculous 1954 World Cup win; custom models for stars from Madonna to Lionel Messi; collabs with the likes of Pharrell Williams, Raf Simons, Stella McCartney or Yohji Yamamoto; 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.
Details & Care
- Publisher: TASCHEN
- Hard cover
- Colour photography
- Number of pages: 512 pages
- ISBN: 9783836591072
- Multilingual edition
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