Adidas Originals x Willy Chavarria "Love Prevails" Drops April 18

$160. That is the price for a Superstar with an embossed injection-molded rose where the rubber texture used to be. Adidas Originals and Willy Chavarria titled this collection "Love Prevails." The price is neutral. The material choice is not. ## Molded Rose, Gothic Font, Two Grayscale Options The Superstar is relevant again because Adidas keeps handing it to designers who understand what the shell toe actually communicates. Samuel L. Jackson wore it in 2026 for a different campaign. Willy Chavarria takes the same silhouette, removes the three-stripe contrast, and replaces the signature rubber texture of the shell toe with a single embossed rose. "Willy Chavarria" appears in gothic-style lettering on the lateral heel. Two colorways: both grayscale. Those decisions are not arbitrary. Chavarria designs for Mexican American farmworker communities, for people who were told their clothes were wrong, their palettes were too loud, their bodies were incorrect for mainstream sizing. The grayscale read quiet luxury until you get close enough to read the font and see the flower. Then it reads resistance. ## Bomber, Crewneck, Cargo, Pinstripe — Chavarria's Silhouette Logic The apparel reads like a Chavarria capsule that Adidas agreed not to change. Oversized silhouettes throughout: bomber jackets with co-branded graphics, crewnecks with rose embroidery, cargo jackets in the same grey family as the sneaker. The pinstripe tracksuit is the standout. Tracksuits have been a Chavarria signature since his eponymous label launched; the pinstripe version at Adidas brings that reference to a mass price point without softening the proportions. For comparison: his previous run at Calvin Klein during 2023 produced pieces that retailed at $895 for a suit jacket. The Adidas Superstar is $160. The demographic shift in accessibility is the editorial statement. Chavarria has not moved down, he has moved sideways, with his full vocabulary intact. ## April 18, 10am EST; CONFIRMED App; One Sharp Timestamp The drop is April 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM Eastern. Adidas CONFIRMED app, adidas.com, and select retail partners. Chavarria styled the campaign himself, which is the move of a designer who understands that campaign aesthetics are as much the product as the physical garment. His previous collections at his eponymous brand have been worn by Colman Domingo, Bobby Tens, and various figures from the Latinx art community. The Adidas collab does not erase that lineage. It amplifies it. "Love Prevails" is not a marketing tagline chosen by committee. It is the sentence Chavarria has been making clothes around since 2015. The Superstar is just the newest vessel.