AVAVAV strips adidas Megaride into a deconstructed suede runner
AVAVAV turns adidas’ Megaride into a distressed suede runner with windowed mesh and cut-out caging, a sharper take on luxury-sport wreckage.
AVAVAV’s latest adidas move is less about performance polish than about making a runner look beautifully undone. Under Beate Skonare Karlsson’s eye, the Spring/Summer 2026 collaboration takes adidas’ Megaride and strips it back into something more directional, using distressed suede, canvas, and windowed mesh to pull the silhouette away from clean sport and into fashion with a deliberately frayed edge.
The Megaride is positioned as a stripped-back evolution of AVAVAV’s earlier Moonrubber Megaride, but the changes are what give it bite. adidas says the upper folds in canvas and suede iterations, while the mesh opens up into visible windows that nod to AVAVAV’s signature cut-out caging. The result is not a sleek runner trying to look fashionable, but a sneaker that wears its interference on the surface: softened texture, exposed structure, and a silhouette attitude that feels more posed than engineered. In black, the shoe is listed in Core Black, Shadow Olive and Utility Black, a palette that keeps the damage looking intentional rather than chaotic.
The release arrives globally on May 22, 2026 through CONFIRMED, adidas.com, adidas stores and select retailers. The pricing tells its own story about where the shoe sits in the market. AVAVAV lists the Megaride at $300 USD on its own site, while adidas US places the same collaboration at $200. AVAVAV’s European shop sets it at €200, underscoring a collaboration aimed at buyers who are already fluent in the language of deconstructed luxury and willing to pay for a sneaker that leans harder into concept than utility. The black pair carries product code KK2728, a small but telling sign that this is being treated with the precision of a proper footwear drop, not just a runway accessory.
The broader adidas Originals x AVAVAV capsule extends that tension across the rest of the lineup. A Modified Superstar appears in two versions, a Deconstructed Superstar with a collapsible leather upper and a Shaved Pony Superstar with a faux pony-hair finish, while the apparel range includes a skintight baselayer, hooded mini dress, shoulderless hoodie, double-brim slashed cap, long socks, a sweatband set and a sculpted leather sports bag that adidas says is the largest version it has produced to date. Shot by Belgian photographer Lennert Madou, a longtime AVAVAV collaborator, the campaign keeps the house’s humor and controlled disruption intact. What matters here is not just another remix, but the growing appetite for luxury-sport hybrids that look a little broken on purpose.
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