Adidas and Designer Sean Wotherspoon Upcycle Fabric for New Sneakers

Adidas and American sneaker designer Sean Wotherspoon developed new vegan footwear made from plant-based materials and upcycled fabric. Their SuperEarth Superstar shoe is set to release at the end of this month. The collaboration between Wotherspoon, co-founder of the vintage retailer Round Two, and Adidas was created with sustainability in mind, Victor Deng reported in Footwear News. “We researched plant-based, recyclable, alternative, and vegan materials that we could incorporate into the shoe so it can have multiple lives,” Wotherspoon told Adidas, according to Deng.

Making the carbon footprint of a sneaker as small as possible is one of Adidas’ environmental goals. Earlier this year the company teamed up with sustainable shoe startup Allbirds to develop what they hope will be “a sports-performance shoe with the lowest carbon emissions.”

Adidas plans to make the SuperEarth shoe available online and through select retailers starting August 29. In an Instagram post announcing the collaboration, the sportswear manufacturer said that, along with Wotherspoon, they were “committing together to a more sustainable world, one shoe at a time.”

Source: Environmental Leader

Author: Kirsi Seppänen