Thus far, I’ve paired my Sambas with an early-’00s cutoff vintage Adidas tee and biker shorts for a coffee run, and with a color-blocked track jacket and a dad hat on rainy-day treks to Pilates. Because of the sweltering heat wave hitting New York City, most of my outfits have been functional as of late. I quickly realized the Wales Bonner Sambas aren’t meant to be paired with the “perfect” outfit as much as they are meant to be an extension of the wearer.
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So as much as I gasped when I first opened the shoebox, I was also stressed about how to wear them. While a perfectly mismatched outfit can look effortless on some, it can appear try-hard on others. If you’re, say, Bella Hadid, you could throw these shoes on with anything and look stunning grabbing a slice of pizza. The silver mirrored patent leather pays homage to the Afrofuturistic aesthetic Wales Bonner is known for, while the crocheted stripes and oversize tongue are an ode to the organic fibers and fabrics of the Caribbean. This isn’t a shoe for the sartorially shy, however. The Adidas x Wales Bonner Samba, in silver NUREG GmbH While I was brunching with a friend in my neighborhood last week, one of the waiters stopped me mid-meal to say, “Sick shoes.” To me, that means more than any sort of shallow industry validation. Go to any artisanal coffee shop in Brooklyn and you’ll surely see someone in a piece of hers. She is quintessentially British (Duchess Meghan wore a creamy Wales Bonner belted dress when she debuted her son Archie alongside Prince Harry in 2019, before they left the royal family), while still enjoying authentic cred with the streetwear crowd. Jamaican-British designer Grace Wales Bonner-whom revered fashion critic Robin Givhan described last year as “the perfect designer for now”-has come to symbolize the future of fashion, especially for style-obsessed young people of color. My silver Wales Bonner Adidas Sambas are a pair of shoes that somehow encompass everything I stand for in a style sense. (My growing Mara Hoffman collection is a testament to this.) Now, at 29, I hunt for closet staples as well as long-lasting pieces that still feel special. When I met my fiancé, I spent the first year of our relationship living in his clothes-oversize soccer hoodies, vintage concert tees, you name it. I had a brief “manic pixie but make it Puerto Rican” era when I was surrounded by vintage shops in Chicago years back. I went through a major romper phase when I started college. When I look at how I’ve shopped and dressed myself over the course of my 20s, it’s changed so drastically, and sometimes I cringe thinking about fleeting trends I invested in, only to toss pieces in the donation bin by the end of the year. I’ve never been someone who can easily summarize her style in a few adjectives. Here, culture editor Bianca Betancourt explains why her silver Wales Bonner x Adidas Sambas are so much more than just a streetwear shoe.
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