New Order inspired a line of adidas Spezial clothes & shoes
New Order just released their first new single in five years last week, and now here’s another new release from the band. They collaborated with longtime friend and fan Gary Aspden, the founder and curator of adidas Spezial, on a new line of clothing and shoes, which you can see below.
“I knew Gary Aspden from the Haçienda days – Adidas Spezial is his baby,” Bernard Sumner told GQ. “He always mentioned working with us and approached us and our visual designer, former GQ art editor Warren Jackson. I said I’d do it, as long as the collaboration wasn’t just a rubber-stamping process.”
As Sumner continued to GQ, he knew what he didn’t want the collection to look like. “What I wore up until about 1982 was fine,” he said. “Everything I wore for the rest of the 1980s was not. During the Acid House phase, when I was perhaps participating in a little too much fun, I actually wore some dungarees, half done up. Not a good look. The 1980s looked bloody terrible. I hated the fashion. There were two streams of people then, not just the square shoulders, geometrical lines and backcombed hair. That was the mainstream, along with Spandau Ballet, Live Aid and Duran Duran. The alternative underground was led by New Order and The Smiths and we didn’t dress like the mainstream. We thought the music was shit – it still is shit – and the clothes were shit.”
Speaking to Hypebeast, Aspden said about the collection, “I love the black New Order outerwear jacket. Bernard is often out on his boat so we looked at yachting jackets for ideas. Unlike the jacket we have created, yachting jackets are usually brightly coloured for practical reasons so we brought some contrast to the night grey tonality of the coat and it’s reflective branding with interchangeable zip pullers in a variety of bright pastel colours. These pullers allow the wearer to subtly customise the piece. This idea was carried through into the trainers with interchangeable lace jewels in the same palette.”
“The shoe in this drop is called the New Order Wilsy SPZL,” he continued. “Bernard currently wears the Wilsy SPZL from a few seasons ago as his on-stage shoe (he always wears white trainers on stage), so we looked at making a more premium all-white version of that in a new fabrication with a few tweaks; adding eyelets, removing stitch lines, reflective second laces, interchangeable lace jewels in various colours. Every part of the product is considered including the box and tissue paper.”
The collection is available starting Friday, September 18 via adidas Spezial, but it’s currently only shipping to the UK.
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Duran Duran share “Anniversary” from upcoming album, touring
Duran Duran have shared another song from their upcoming album, Future Past. Punctuated by John Taylor's signature popping disco bass, "Anniversary" plays with the band's own past and tips its hat to some of their biggest hits.
“‘Anniversary’ is a special song for us," says John Taylor. "Obviously we were conscious of our own impending 40th anniversary of making music together, but we wanted the song’s meaning to be inclusive in the broadest possible way. After playing and working together for so long, we very much appreciate what ‘being together’ and ’staying together’ can really mean, it’s not something we would have thought song-worthy 40 years ago but we do today! It was also fun to build a track with hints of previous Duran hits, they’re like Easter eggs, for the fans to find.”
You can listen to "Anniversary" below.
Future Past is out October 22 and features productions by Giorgio Moroder, Mark Ronson, and Erol Alkan, and collaborations with Graham Coxon (Blur), CHAI, Tove Lo, Bowie keyboardist Mike Garson, and Ivorian Doll. The band also have a few tour dates lined up for 2021 and 2022, including both weekends of the Austin City Limits Festival in October. All dates are listed below.
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Duran Duran - 2021/2022 Tour Dates
September 14, 2021 - O2 Institute - Birmingham, UK
September 15, 2021 - O2 Institute - Birmingham, UK
September 17, 2021 - Scarborough Open Air Theatre - Scarborough, UK
September 19, 2021 - Duran Duran at Isle of Wight Festival
October 03, 2021 - Austin City Limits Music Festival
October 10, 2021 - Austin City Limits Music Festival
April 29, 2022 -Touch the Sunrise 2022 - Ibiza, Balearic Isles
June 12, 2022 - Saint Anne's Park - Dublin, Ireland
June 25, 2022 - Rock in Rio Lisboa Festival - Lisboa, Portugal
July 01, 2022 - Lytham Festival - Ribble Estuary
July 10, 2022 - American Express Presents BST Hyde Park - Hyde Park, London
