Release Date: Brain Dead x adidas Stan Smith
Brain Dead have officially unveiled their latest collaboration with adidas, the ‘Unstructured’ Stan Smith. Set to land at Wimbledon on July 6, the model serves as an ode to the legendary Wimbledon champion and it features unlined supple cow leather that makes the shoe extremely malleable. This colourway is a London exclusive and will only be available in-person on July 6 at and a Brain Dead tennis event at on Sunday July 7. These are set to be extremely limited, so in the word of Brain Dead, ‘Don’t Sleep!’
The mind-melting team at Brain Dead continue to serve up plenty of collaborations to keep their hordes of fans satiated. Happily staying well outside their ‘lane’, the LA collective recently linked up with adidas for a duo of Bowling Shoes, a throwback 1970s strike that hit the market earlier this month. Brain Dead’s sophomore hook-up with Team Trefoil moves from the bowling alley to the tennis courts, the label this week sharing a teaser of their upcoming Stan Smith collaboration.
While details at the moment are scarce, co-founder Kyle Ng shared up-close images via his Instagram. Ostensibly featuring a faux-scuffed, pre-aged aesthetic, the Stan Smith is stamped with Brain Dead’s cult classic face logo on the tongue, which also reads, ‘Endorsed by: Brain Dead’. The motif is again repeated on the lateral side, where a perforated version appears. Elsewhere, chunky, oozing green laces give the partnership some sci-fi bounce – a signature element of Brain Dead’s graphics. Ng also shared a special-edition box for the collaboration on his Instagram, which sees the Three Stripes logo combined with the Brain Dead logo.
Currently, there’s no official confirmation from either party regarding a release date, but keep it locked to Sneaker Freaker for updates.
Introduced in 1965 as the adidas Robert Haillet, the silhouette was originally designed as a tennis shoe for the French tennis player. For more on Stan Smith, make sure to check out our comprehensive history.