{"id":793701,"date":"2018-10-16T14:45:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=793701"},"modified":"2018-10-16T15:43:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T19:43:48","slug":"union-blends-uk-terrace-and-new-york-hip-hop-cultures-for-adidas-spezial-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/union-blends-uk-terrace-and-new-york-hip-hop-cultures-for-adidas-spezial-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Blends UK Terrace and New York Hip Hop Cultures for adidas Spezial Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When hip-hop\u00a0culture was circulating in New York City and throughout the country in the mid to late &#8217;80s, around the same time, so was the football-fueled\u00a0Terrace movement in the UK. Both driven by a specific genre at its center yet spawning individual sub-cultures that hinged\u00a0upon many things &#8212; including fashion &#8212; Los Angeles-based <strong>Union<\/strong> finds the commonality between the two for its budding <strong>adidas\u00a0Spezial<\/strong> capsule collection.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_793704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793704\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2023\/12\/404-dead-image.jpg'\" class=\"size-full wp-image-793704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adiwh040.jpg\" alt=\"Union x adidas Spezial\" width=\"1000\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adiwh040.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adiwh040-325x261.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adiwh040-623x500.jpg 623w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adiwh040-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adiwh040-935x750.jpg 935w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adiwh040-720x577.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-793704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Union x adidas Spezial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A central thesis of each sub-culture was the pride in which they took in how they presented themselves. Style was paramount to hip-hop and Terrace culture alike, Union seizes that importance with its capsule collection that largely circles apparel.<\/p>\n<p>Pleated trousers, jackets, and tees serve as the baseline for the capsule while the adidas Garwen SPZL &#8212; inspired by the colorway of a 1994 iteration of the adidas 350 &#8212; anchors the footwear component. Dressed in a British premium suede upper, two iterations of the shoe share a leisurely aesthetic heightened by contemporary minimalism.<\/p>\n<p>Look for the\u00a0<strong>Union x\u00a0adidas\u00a0Spezial<\/strong> capsule collection on Friday, October 19, at Union retail locations and <a href=\"http:\/\/unionlosangeles.com\/2018\/10\/15\/union-spezial-crew-fw18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_793705\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793705\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2023\/12\/404-dead-image.jpg'\" class=\"size-full wp-image-793705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adihw014.jpg\" alt=\"Union x adidas Spezial\" width=\"750\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adihw014.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adihw014-220x275.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adihw014-401x500.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adihw014-601x750.jpg 601w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adihw014-720x899.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-793705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Union x adidas Spezial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_793706\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793706\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2023\/12\/404-dead-image.jpg'\" class=\"size-full wp-image-793706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adiwh038.jpg\" alt=\"Union x adidas Spezial\" width=\"750\" height=\"927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adiwh038.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adiwh038-222x275.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adiwh038-405x500.jpg 405w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adiwh038-607x750.jpg 607w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2018\/10\/adiwh038-720x890.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-793706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Union x adidas Spezial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When hip-hop\u00a0culture was circulating in New York City and throughout the country in the mid to late &#8217;80s, around the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137731,"featured_media":793703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1225462,1216534],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Union x\u00a0adidas\u00a0Spezial Capsule Collection | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Union joins with adidas for a Spezial collection due out this weekend. 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