Adidas Superstar Core Black Better Scarlet

Adidas Superstar "Core Black / Better Scarlet / Core Black"

Bold, iconic, and carrying over five decades of cultural weight — the Adidas Superstar Core Black Better Scarlet is the most graphic and commanding colourway the Superstar has ever worn, and it delivers with exactly the kind of high-contrast impact that the silhouette’s legendary status demands. The Superstar needs no introduction: first released in 1969 as a low-top basketball shoe, it crossed over from the court to the street in the 1980s on the feet of Run-DMC and never looked back, becoming one of the most recognised and culturally significant sneakers in the history of footwear. In core black, the Superstar’s full-grain leather upper achieves its most dramatic and authoritative expression — the entire shoe draped in a deep, matte black that turns the silhouette into a graphic study in form and line, letting the shell toe, the perforations, and the Three Stripes read with the clarity of a bold illustration against a dark canvas. Better scarlet Three Stripes cut across the side panel with a vivid, blood-orange red intensity that pops against the black ground with maximum visual tension, providing the singular colour accent that gives the entire shoe its explosive energy. A matching scarlet heel tab echoes the stripe colour at the rear, while the all-black shell toe outsole grounds the look in the Superstar’s most iconic silhouette detail without any tonal distraction.

• Iconic low-top Superstar silhouette — the definitive basketball-to-street cultural crossover since 1969
• Full-grain core black leather upper for a deep, matte, graphic all-black base
• Better scarlet Three Stripes for a vivid, blood-orange red high-contrast side panel accent
• Matching scarlet heel tab for a cohesive accent colour echo at the rear
• Signature perforated shell toe in core black for the Superstar’s most iconic silhouette detail
• Black rubber shell toe outsole for a clean, all-black tonal base
• Adidas Originals trefoil tongue label for heritage archive branding
• Available in US and EU sizes

Black and scarlet, dark and bold — the Adidas Superstar Core Black Better Scarlet is the iconic shell toe at its most graphic, most dramatic, and most completely itself.