🎾 Stan Smith. Sporty & Rich x Adidas Originals Stan Smith ‘White Green’. • Adidas Stan Smith is a tennis shoe made by Adidas, and first launched in 1965. Originally named “Adidas Robert Haillet” after the brand endorsed French prominent player Robert Haillet, in 1978 the sneakers were renamed after Stan Smith, an American tennis player who was active between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1980s. The shoe, usually made with a white leather upper and laces, has a simple design. Unlike most Adidas shoes, it does not have the external three stripes. Instead there are three rows of perforations (or punched ventilation holes) on both sides of each shoe’s leather upper. There is sometimes a sketched picture of Stan Smith on the tongue of the shoe. - This season, adidas Originals and the Los Angeles based label, Sporty & Rich, return to present their third collaborative collection. Building on the aesthetic language established in previous seasons, the latest collection p...