Adidas Superstar 82 Cloud White Black Mens Athletic Sneaker

adidas Superstar 82 — Cloud White/Black (Men’s)

Archive-precise, year-stamped, and wearing the most historically complete and graphically definitive colorway the Superstar has carried since the day it was introduced, the adidas Superstar 82 in cloud white and black is a men’s walking and lifestyle sneaker that returns the Superstar to the specific year of 1982 — a moment in the shoe’s cultural history when it had completed its transition from basketball performance to street culture and was sitting at the precise intersection of sport and style that defined the early 1980s New York City sneaker scene and the hip-hop culture that was being born inside it. The Superstar 82 is adidas Originals’ year-designated Superstar reissue — not simply a Superstar, but the Superstar as it existed in 1982, with the specific construction details, proportions, and design characteristics of that particular year’s production. The “82” designation is the most historically specific and most culturally loaded year-stamp in the Superstar family: 1982 is the year the Superstar was being worn by the pioneers of hip-hop culture in New York, the year the shoe was transitioning from court to street with a speed and cultural completeness that no adidas design had achieved before it, the year that the Superstar’s cultural identity was being written in real time by the people wearing it. Cloud white and black is the Superstar 82’s most historically authentic and graphically complete colorway — and the original data’s color field notes “beige,” which reflects the warm, aged character that the Superstar 82’s cloud white carries in contrast to a bright modern white, the particular off-white warmth of a shoe whose color has been calibrated to the way the Superstar’s leather actually looked in 1982 rather than the way a contemporary white shoe looks today. Cloud white here is the white of aged leather and period-accurate reproduction, the white that the Superstar wore when hip-hop was young and the shell toe was everywhere. Black arrives as the accent that gives the cloud white its full graphic expression — the stripes, the sole detailing, the design elements that the Superstar has always worn in black when its upper has been white, producing the most complete and most historically grounded white/black Superstar colorway in the session’s five Superstar entries. Leather construction, lace-up closure, low-top silhouette, available in men’s US sizes 8, 9, 12, and 13 — the Superstar 82: the shell toe as it existed in the year the world decided it was more than a basketball shoe.

Product Details

• Brand: adidas Originals
• Model: Superstar 82
• Style Code: GY7037
• Color: Cloud White / Black
• Material: Leather
• Closure: Lace-Up
• Silhouette: Low Top
• Category: Walking & Lifestyle Sneaker
• Department: Men

Available Sizes (US Men’s)

8  •  9  •  12  •  13

Cloud white 1982-period-accurate leather warmth, black graphic Superstar authority, shell toe at the exact moment hip-hop claimed it — the adidas Superstar 82 in cloud white and black is the men’s lifestyle sneaker that returns to the year the Superstar became more than a shoe.