adidas Originals SPZL Spezial Garwen Brown Leather Trainers BA7724

Product Information

The result is the Noel Gallagher x Adidas Garwen Spezial. The silhouette is part of the brand’sheritage Spezial franchise, which specializes in reproducing and reimagining archival Adidas models and is led by designer Gary Aspden. The adidas Garwen SPZL Brown is far removed from the conventional ‘sneaker’ aesthetic. This refined silhouette blends sports heritage with smarter menswear. As such, this boasts versatility, to be worn for all occasions. Let’s take a closer look at this design.

This shoe was inspired by the OG adidas Raider. The outsole of the OG Raider was not available to us so we had to look at other options – the early samples used the ZX500 outsole but we felt it ‘flattened’ the silhouette so with the additional time we were able to explore other options. The OG adidas Raider from 86/87 was listed in catalogues as a Trekking shoe and came in several colourways. With its original purpose in mind we wanted to explore the idea of moving it further into the realms of a winterised trekking shoe – using an outsole that would look ‘chunkier’. We wanted the materials to be more robust and opted for a Cordura base (with Cordura branding). We made some further tweaks (e.g. adding eyelets, horizontal patch branding on the Cordura tongue and the cream cutaway in the outsole) before arriving at a shoe that we were all excited about. Whether you’re a collector of vintage footwear, or simply love the aesthetic of this smarter shoe, you’ll want to cop when these launch in early spring. I actually got a sneaky photo exclusive of the Moscrop at the CP Company panel talk in October 2021. GA was wearing them and I just happened to be on the front row!

Replacing the 3-Stripes, on the lateral sidewalls there’s a tonal branded adidas flap, while the rubber soles feature 3 indented stripes that combine with the classic Trefoil logo. These sturdy soles deliver a grippy tread and further branding for a classic adi sign-off.

My dad was a hard worker, a good man and my biggest supporter – I sincerely hope the pleasure these shoes bring to people might in some way honour his memory’

Glxy (galaxy)

Marking the fourth collaborative year between the German sportswear giant and Gary Aspden, the adidas Garwen SPZL Beige Gum has been unveiled, and it definitely deserves a place in your sneaker collection. There have been a number of Malmö reissues in the 23 years I have worked with adidas so the challenge was to bring newness to a shoe that many will have preconceived ideas about.We knew immediately that we would want to revise the uppers and completely rework the toe box.We pulled together as many relevant references as possible.Like the Marathon 86 SPZL there is no definitive version of the Malmö but our ambition was to try and create a shoe that improves on their ancestry.We had a number of vintage Malmö (and other shoes) to work from,these shoes gave us a foundation to compare and contrast with whilst we took their traditional look in this new direction.We opted to use a degree of translucency in the sole (instead of a solid) which gives a ‘screening’ effect to the base of the 3 stripes. The shoes come with a second lace option in blue.We realise that to some these shoes are ‘sacred cows’ and our aim was to maintain the look and feel of a vintage shoe whilst taking the silhouette of the Malmö into a territory that previous reissues haven’t explored.’