Adidas Superstar
The leather basketball shoe with a rubber shell toe that hip-hop made its own.
The Superstar came in 1969 as a leather basketball shoe with a hard rubber toe to protect against knocks. It soon became common among basketball players in the USA.
The hip-hop group Run-DMC wore the shoe without laces in the 1980s and rapped about it in 1986. After that it became a symbol of street fashion.
Materials: Leather, rubber sole, rubber shell toe
Manufacture: Launched by Adidas in West Germany in 1969.
The wide rubber shell toe.
The three stripes with serrated edges.
The white leather upper.