STREETX AND REEBOK REVIVE THE 1996 SIDEWINDER JULY 19

Vector Tracksuit. Sidewinder 96 Shoe with its own drawstring bag. Stadium Tee. Big Logo Hoodie. Big Logo 5 Panel Cap. Vector Woven Polo. Big Logo Tee. Seven pieces, one Perth label, one deadline. StreetX and Reebok go live online at 5PM AWST on July 19, which lands at 2AM PST the same date for anyone checking out from Los Angeles instead of Perth. StreetX had been asking Reebok for this since 2015. It took eleven years to get a yes, and the yes arrived with the Sidewinder attached, the boot Ryan Giggs wore in 1996 and the same name Reebok has spent the past year quietly rebuilding for the professional game.

That is the real story here. Reebok did not hand a small Australian label a logo pack. It handed StreetX one of the two or three most specific archive names in its football closet, then let the label build a tracksuit, a polo, two hoodies worth of graphics, a cap and a drawstring bag around it.

5PM AWST Beats 2AM PST by Sixteen Hours

StreetX opens the capsule online at 5PM AWST on July 19 through streetx.com.au. The same seven pieces go live at 2AM PST on July 19, which means a buyer in Perth is shopping in daylight while a buyer in Los Angeles is setting an alarm before sunrise. The lineup covers a full outfit rather than a single hero item. The Vector Tracksuit and Vector Woven Polo carry Reebok's Vector graphic, the Stadium Tee and both Big Logo Tee and Big Logo Hoodie carry the wordmark, and the Big Logo 5 Panel Cap rounds out the headwear. The Sidewinder 96 Shoe ships with a matching drawstring bag, a detail that reads more like a football boot bag than a sneaker box insert, which fits the source material.

Daniel Bradshaw Waited Eleven Years For This

Daniel Bradshaw founded StreetX in Perth in 2011 when he was 21 years old. He had been trying to land a Reebok collaboration since 2015, and July 19 is the first time it actually happens. In between, StreetX opened a Perth flagship store in 2015, ran pop up shops in Brisbane, Sydney, Los Angeles and Japan, and built a collaboration resume that includes Champion, Rusty, Anwar Carrots, Fathom Japan and two rounds with Crocs on the Classic Clog. Reebok has been handing its own archive to outside partners all year, from Brain Child's 150 pair Boston only DMX Series 3000 drop to StreetX now getting the Sidewinder. A decade of smaller collaborations is what earns a label the archive names, not a cold email.

The Original Sidewinder Broke Football Boot Design in 1996

Reebok launched the Sidewinder in 1996 as the first football boot built around a jagged, graphic driven panel design, credited to designer Mark Haskins. Ryan Giggs wore it on the pitch alongside Raul Gonzalez, Andy Cole and Ivan de la Pena, and the jagged lines were distinctive enough that they later showed up on a match ball. Reebok is currently rebuilding that name as a real performance boot, aiming to return to the professional game in time for this year's World Cup. The version StreetX is reworking is not that cleat. It is the Sidewinder 96 ID, the lifestyle build Reebok already sells in silver and black lime through its own stores, which StreetX has repainted for a capsule that never touches turf.

This Sidewinder Never Touches a Pitch

The StreetX build swaps Reebok's stock colorways for yellow and green, Australia's national racing colors, across the apparel and the shoe alike. That single choice is what separates a licensed reskin from a genuine collaboration, the same test that applies to any archive revival. Reebok is timing the real Sidewinder cleat to a much bigger stage this year, the kind of moment PSG's roster of players who have scored for five different countries is being fought over on the professional side, even though the StreetX pair will never see a locker room. The Vector graphic across the tracksuit and polo dates to 1986, built from a Side Stripe representing the track and a Cross Check representing the athlete crossing the line, an abstract nod to the Union Jack that Reebok reunified its whole product line under in 2019.

Buy the Sidewinder 96 Before the Second Restock Question

The Sidewinder 96 and its drawstring bag are the piece to grab at 5PM AWST or 2AM PST on July 19, because this is StreetX's first Reebok collaboration after an eleven year wait and neither brand has confirmed a restock. The tracksuit is the safer buy if the shoe sells out first, since it carries the same 1986 Vector graphic and the same Australian colorway story without a sizing gamble. Reebok handed a Perth label its most specific 1996 archive name and got a full capsule back instead of a single collab shoe, which is a better trade than most brands make when they license out a name this old.