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Today, with his smart suits and downturned moustache, Stanley Roger Smith looks more like a captain of American industry than a world-beating sportsman. He looks even less like a men's style icon.
Yet, indirectly at least, Smith has informed the wardrobes of myriad subcultures; from LA skaters to the Japanese avant garde, from sports casuals to indie kids, as well as legions of sporting greats. For the 1970s tennis star's name has appeared on the best-selling sports shoe of all time since Adidas Superstar Mujer 1971. The Adidas Stan Smith has sold a not inconsiderable 40 million pairs over the years (you hear that, Converse All Stars?) and, today, after two years on the sidelines, Smith's shoes are stepping back into the limelight.
Thanks to tennis's air of gentility and elegance - the crisp whites, the preppy polo shirts Nike Iternationalist Damen - the sport has always had an inherent sense of style, which is nowhere more visible than in the footwear worn by its participants. Whether squeaking merrily on the asphalt courts of WASPish country clubs or skidding across the scorched summer turf of Wimbledon, tennis shoes have long been some of the most appealing items of sports kit. And none have endured better that Adidasâs original tennis shoe.
Like Chuck Taylor, the 1920s baseball star who lent his moniker to Converseâs All Stars, and tennis star Rene Lacoste, Adidas Kamanda Mujer who co-founded La Chemise Lacoste in 1933 to mass-produce the polo shirt that he had worn on the way to several Grand Slam titles (and which went on to become a design titan), Stan Smith was a sporting zenith in his own right before he became synonymous with an item of apparel. From the dusty courts of Pasadena, Nike Air Force 1 Dámské California, to the sport's promised land of the All England Club in London SW19, Smithâs ascent through the ranks of tennis stardom was swift.
Throughout his rise, he wore a tennis shoe called the Adidas Robert Haillet, named after the renowned French tennis player of the '50s and '60s, who was enlisted by the sportswear Adidas Eqt Support Adv Dames firm in 1965 to lend their footwear some extra gravitas. Little did Smith know that heâd one day take over Hailletâs mantle.
After blazing through the US Open (which he won in 1971), Smith then set his Nike Air Max 90 Mujer sights on Wimbledon and, in 1972, walked away from his battle with Franceâs Ilie Nastase victorious. With Smith now number one in the world rankings, Adidas came calling, and the shoe (Haillet never progressed beyond the semi-final of a Slam event) was swiftly renamed after the American; with his name emblazoned Adidas Stan Smith Mujer on the sides and a rendering of his face on the tongue.
It wasnât purely a case of hero worship on the part of Adidas. The German sports brand, founded in 1948 by Adolf Dassler, had hitherto been relatively unknown beyond Europe: forming a harmonious sartorial marriage with Americaâs sporting golden boy helped the Asics Gel Lyte 3 Femme label break into the USA.
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| Beitrag vom 23.11.2018 - 06:09 |
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