"100年前，阿道夫（Adolf）和鲁道夫•达斯勒（Rudolf Dassler）两兄弟制造了他们的**双运动鞋。经过数百个突破性设计，史诗般的瞬间以及星光熠熠的协作后，这本书通过350多个款式（包括从未见过的原型和****的原创）首次以视觉形式对阿迪达斯鞋进行了回顾。为了进一步发展和根据运动员的特定需求定制产品，达斯勒兄弟请他们将穿坏的不再需要的鞋退回阿迪达斯，最终所有的鞋子都被放在他的阁楼中（直到今天，许多运动员会将自己穿过的鞋还给阿迪达斯，常常作为赢得**或打破世界纪录后的一种感谢方式）。
这些鞋子现在构成了“阿迪达斯档案”，世界上**的体育用品制造商档案之一（可能没有之一）——多年来摄影师克里斯蒂安•哈伯迈尔（Christian Habermeier）和塞巴斯蒂安•贾格（Sebastian Jager）一直在用非常详尽的细节拍摄这些鞋子。这些照片使用**的复制技术拍摄，显示出细微的细节，包括污渍，裂缝，修复胶带，草渍和褪色的签名。一切都展示在这本书中，没有任何改动，以极高的分辨率进行拍摄——通过这个档案，每双鞋的主人的个人故事也展现在读者们面前。
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"100 years ago the brothers Adolf (""Adi"") and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs later, this book presents the first visual review of the adidas shoe through more than 350 models including never-before-seen prototypes and one-of-a-kind originals. To further develop and tailor his products to athletes' specific needs, Dassler asked them to return their worn footwear when no longer needed, with all the shoes eventually ending up in his attic (to this day, many athletes return their shoes to adidas, often as a thank you after winning a title or breaking a world record).
This collection now makes up the ""adidas archive"", one of the largest, if not the largest archive of any sports goods manufacturer in the world-which photographers Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jager have been visually documenting in extreme detail for years. Shot using the highest reproduction techniques, these images reveal the fine details as much as the stains, the tears, the repair tape, the grass smudges, the faded autographs. It's all here, unmanipulated and captured in extremely high resolution-and with it comes to light the personal stories of each individual wearer.
We encounter the shoes worn by West Germany's football team during its ""miraculous"" 1954 World Cup win and those worn by Kathrine Switzer when she ran the Boston Marathon in 1967, before women were officially allowed to compete; custom models for stars from Madonna to Lionel Messi; collabs with the likes of Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Raf Simons, Stella McCartney, Parley for the Oceans or Yohji Yamamoto; as well as the brand's trailblazing techniques and materials, like its pioneering use of plastic waste that is intercepted from beaches and coastal communities. Accompanied by a foreword by designer Jacques Chassaing and expert texts, each picture tells us the why and the how, but also conveys the driving force behind adidas. What we discover goes beyond mere design; in the end, these are just shoes, worn out by their users who have loved them-but they are also first-hand witnesses of our sports, design, and culture history, from the beginnings of the Dassler brothers and the founding of adidas until today.
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