#Adidas gay pride shoes update#
UPDATE 6/6: The Pride Pack, which includes the Stan Smith, Superstar and an adilette slide, is available now at.
It’s now the best selling adidas sneaker of all-time.īringing these two events together and celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Gay Pride events, adidas introduces the Stan Smith as part of the ‘Pride Pack.’ The shoe features rainbow paint drips along its perforated sidewalls, multicolor patterned insoles and rainbow gradient laces.Ī release date hasn’t been announced, but the drop could coincide with nationwide pride events that generally occur in June. Together, we offer a collection in celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community's past & present. That shoe, of course, went on to become the Stan Smith following Haillet’s retirement from the game. Bringing these two events together and celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Gay Pride events, adidas introduces the Stan Smith as part of the ‘Pride Pack.’ The shoe features rainbow paint drips. The adidas x Kris Andrew Small Pride Collection was inspired by the activists of the Stonewall Uprising in 1969. The same year, adidas named its flagship tennis shoe the “Robert Haillet” after the French tennis pro. They carried signs demanding legislation that would secure the rights of LGBT Americans, a battle that continues today.
Three Adidas staples - the Stan Smith, the Adilette Slide and the Superstar - are getting the limited edition makeover as part of the 'Pride Pack. Years before the first Gay Pride Parade, gay rights activists gathered outsole Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Jfor the first ever LGBT picket. Sportswear giant Adidas is following in the footsteps of Nike and Levi's in putting a rainbow-hued twist on some of its most iconic designs in time for LGBT Pride Month.