We imagine the adidas archives to be something like those in the closing scene of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, with treasures of track and field rather than the occult squirrelled away in boxes. Like declassified yet heavily redacted documents relating to UFO sightings, the trickle of reissues from this secretive sportswear giant does little to dispel this notion. The City Series is one outlet for these rereleases, with old styles reborn with the name and sensibilities of first European then global cities in mind. Do not, however, assume that this latest drop, called Sunshine, has been repurposed to survive on the nuclear fusion reactor at the core of our solar system. Rather, it’s the silhouette that shares much of the DNA of the 1970s Tobacco model, only in a cheery celestial yellow with a cheeky sun design on the tongue. And the name is probably best said in the manner of a Gallagher brother.
