Adidas Spezial Exhibition
Today I visited the Adidas Spezial exhibition, part of Design Manchester 14, which showcased 650 pairs of rare, vintage, deadstock, re-issues and collaboration styles from personal collections of numerous adidas collectors. The exhbition was a chance to literally walk through the adidas archives and experience adidas history first hand.
After a tip off about a store stacked high with vintage adidas products Aspden put together a team of fellow adidas fanatics to travel to Buenos Aires. Invitees were musician Ian Brown, notorious adidas collector Robert Brooks and adidas enthusiast Mike Chetcuti – whilst photographer Neil Bedford and film maker Greg Bond documented the trip. The objective was to find rare archive pieces for research purposes as well as vintage footwear to exhibit in this SPEZIAL exhibition which forms part of Design Manchester 14.
I loved the vinyl lettering that had been used for various adidas relevant quotes on the walls around the exhibition. The fact each letter was individual it made everything feel so authentic and showed at lot of thought had gone into the exhibition.
