Willy Chavarria and adidas Originals unveil Love Prevails streetwear capsule

Willy Chavarria and adidas Originals used Love Prevails to push sportswear into more charged territory, where queer visibility, Latino-inflected tailoring, and romance met on the same rack. The Spring/Summer 2026 capsule landed as a continuation of one of the sharpest designer-brand pairings in streetwear, but the message was bigger than logo play: this was Chavarria translating his baggy, community-minded uniform into adidas’ language of shell toes, tracksuits, and utility layers.

The strongest piece in the collection is the redesigned Chavarria Superstar, offered in two colorways at $160. Its molded rose shell toe gives adidas’ most familiar sneaker a soft, symbolic twist, turning a hard-edged street icon into something almost devotional. In grayscale, the shoe reads less like a hype object and more like a uniform for the city after dark, the kind of sneaker that can anchor wide cargo pants, a pinstripe trouser, or a chore coat without losing its own identity.

That tension between ease and polish runs through the apparel. The range includes bombers, crewnecks, cargo jackets, pinstripe tracksuits, hoodies, sweatpants, logo tees, a woven track set, and a leather bomber jacket priced at $1,300. A pinstripe track jacket lands at $350, which makes the collection’s spread feel intentionally tiered, from the accessible sneaker up to statement outerwear that reads closer to luxury than gym kit. Chavarria’s eye for volume keeps the silhouettes loose and oversized, but the pinstripes and disciplined cuts prevent the clothes from slipping into slouch.

adidas framed the capsule around resistance through empathy, community, and dignity, and that language fits Chavarria’s whole project. He has never treated tailoring as formalwear alone; in his hands, a pinstripe becomes a cultural marker, and a baggy bomber becomes a kind of public armor. The brand has also positioned the Chavarria Superstar as his reinterpretation of adidas’ shell-toe heritage, a love letter to a shoe that has long belonged to the streets.

Love Prevails also shows how deep the partnership has become. Chavarria’s first adidas Originals collaboration was teased during his spring 2025 New York Fashion Week show, then released in two drops on May 8 and July 10, 2025, centered on the archival adidas Jabbar sneaker. Now the relationship has widened further, with a separate Chavarria Megaride model shown in his SS26 Paris Fashion Week presentation and his own store grouping the work across SS25, AW25, and SS26. The result is less a one-off capsule than a growing adidas universe, with Chavarria shaping it season by season into something unmistakably his.