adidas Stan Smith 1

The tennis shoe to end them all, the pimple outsole and trio of perforations in lieu of stripes points to a classic, first introduced at the dawn of the '70s, using the legendary Robert Haillet's model as the basis. A strange turn-of-events by the standards of current signature shoes (it's certainly more extreme than Ray Allen getting his own Jordan 8 sample - now imagine if they renamed it the Air Allen?), it was a quainter time for footwear, and like so many seminal adidas designs, this shoe has been through a fair few incarnations, but this cut works well. Whereas before, the environmentally friendly Grun range left us cold, these are very strong indeed - there's natural and recycled materials throughout, but the monotone approach is excellent, with a touch of 3M discretely added to the branding too. Representing for elements, with a bold depiction on the tongue, these are earth themed.