Espezially For You

15.10.2014

Three fluorescent tubes glowing on a white wall beneath a concrete beam in the empty adidas Spezial exhibition space

Hide those new Nikes quick! Gary Aspden’s adidas Spezial exhibition is coming to Manchester. Featuring the collections of some of the North’s most dedicated adidas hoarders (including Oi Polloi boss-hogg Nigel), there’s alleged to be a grand total of 650 ultra-rare trainers on display. How many stripes is that? Answers written in marker pen onto the toe-box of your deadstock Tahitis to the usual address…

The exhibition is free and will be open from 12pm to 8pm on Friday the 24th of October until Sunday the 2nd November at 7 Dale Street. Find out more here.

And that isn’t all — to coincide with all this, we’re going to be selling the Spezial range of clothing and footwear. These will be available from our Thomas Street shop at 10am on Friday the 24th of October, and online from midnight that night. There might also be some green trainer named after some place in Manchester… but we don’t know anything about that and we’ve got no idea when it’s coming out.

Until then, why not look at these spy-shots of the Spezial exhibition-space and imagine what it’ll look like with all those trainers in.

White wire mesh panels in sharp focus, with empty black display frames blurred behind, in the Spezial exhibition space

Three upright fluorescent tubes glowing on a white wall beside a dark room hung with spotlights

Loose white cable coiled on a dusty concrete floor beneath fluorescent tubes fixed to a white wall

Empty black metal display frames, a stepladder and a white column in a bare room lit by fluorescent tubes

Glass display shelves in dark metal frames reflecting fluorescent tubes, with a red diamond sticker on the glass

Black metal display frames standing in a bare white room, with tangled cables and rubbish across the floor

Looking into the empty Spezial exhibition hall, with rows of black metal display frames under a low ceiling

Pictures courtesy of Jay Johnson

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