adidas SPEZIAL: Northern Soul

    adidas Spezial is the collection with which the German brand reviews its relationship with British subcultures. A story in which music and urban tribes have given new meaning to adidas. This time, it is the British soul scene and its evolution from the Northern Soul of the seventies.

    Every season adidas Spezial focuses its collection on subcultures; the summer of love of 1988, the influence of Jamaica on British style or acid house, always identifying the places and currents that have defined each era.

     

    This time, it goes back to the late sixties, when a new culture associated with American soul music arose from the Mod movement, in which great hits were ignored and unknown authors were sought. The Northern Soul movement was baptized outside its origin, in London record stores that filled up when a team from Manchester or Birmingham visited the city.

    In Northern Soul, Mod hedonism turned into action. Full dance floors throughout the night that forced to forget about the most corseted clothes and looked for mobility. Comfortable shoes, strange combinations of wide pants with tank tops and the bowling bag to change clothes in the middle of the night.

    A local phenomenon that did not cross borders, but that knew how to penetrate the flourishing dj culture of the 80s, dancehall, Acid Jazz or the Madchester sound.

    The adidas Spezial collection focuses on four classic textile and four other footwear references, Ashurst SPZL based on the adidas Sydney, Lotherton SPZL, a reinterpretation of the Ardwick, a Training 76 SPZL based on the adidas Berlin's Japanese version and a Zurro, made on Azzurro and Montreal 76.