A personal project for adidas Spezial lead Gary Aspden, the A. Aspden SPZL wears the name and signature of his late-father.
The original reference is a leisure shoe called Las Palmas, which has been refined with updated details like a split tongue and off-white Hawaii sole tooling for a new silhouette. Aspden used a copy of his father's own signature on the shoe as a tribute.
- Smooth leather upper
- Perforated stripes
- Two-part mesh/leather tongue
- Rubber outsole tooling
- SKU: JQ3074
adidas Spezial (SPZL) is a skunkworks division founded by long-time adidas employee and collector Gary Aspden. The SPZL design team look to revisit, revise and honour the long-storied history between adidas and subcultures around the world.
