MR PORTER - Unpicking The Tangled History Of The Adidas City Series 28/07/2021

The story of the City Series goes back as far as the Rom (or Rome), a training shoe released by adidas in the late 1950s in an Italian-style blue-on-white configuration ahead of the 1960 Olympics in the country. “Nothing much really happened with other city releases until about 1968, when the brand changed the name of its Jaguar sneaker to ‘Athen’ for the Mexico Olympics, paying homage to the birthplace of the modern and ancient games,” says Mr Jockey Wyatt, founder of Liverpool’s Transalpino store and label and a longstanding vintage dealer. However, these early, sporadic releases would kickstart a series of shoes in the following years, a variety of sneakers with the same low profile and simple design, each modified and individualised for each great city they namecheck. 

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