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The Love Prevails collection, launched on April 18, 2026, was created in collaboration between adidas Originals and American fashion designer Willy Chavarria. Centred around the topics of resistance, community, and love, the campaign visually expresses freedom and light that arises from darkness. Standout pieces of the collection include shoes, cargo jackets, crewnecks, bombers, and pinstripe tracksuits.
This Spring/Summer Choose Love
Recognising that love is the biggest power in the world, the collection invites people to choose love, even in times of darkness and uncertainty. Chavarria Superstar shoes are the centrepiece of the collection. The shoes come in two colourways of the Chavarria redesign of adidas’ iconic Superstar.
Inspiration behind Chavarria Superstar
Chavarria Superstar represents the designer’s love letter to a model that has long belonged to the streets. Original Superstars were produced 50 years ago. The shoe’s trademark rubber shell toe brings back memories of playing basketball games and wandering down the city streets. Willy’s reinterpretation of the shoe starts with the tip, which is now moulded as a rose. One model features a black base with white stripes, gold accents, and a white tip shaped as a rose, while the other features a similar black and white colour palette, but with a black rose tip and red accents. Both shoes have the name of the designer printed on the tip of the base and on the tongue alongside the adidas’ iconic trefoil logo and Los Angeles inscription.
Love Prevails in Willy Chavarria-styled campaign
The campaign was also styled by Chavarria. Following the motto that “love is strongest when everything is against it”, the American designer portrays communities that embrace each other, standing against the forces that try to separate them. The resistance doesn’t come from anger, but from empathy and dignity. The models show love and trust in one another, faced with turmoil and fear. Harmony emerges from harshness, freedom overcomes fear, and life defeats death.
adidas Originals x Willy Chavarria apparel
Apart from footwear, the adidas Originals x Willy Chavarria Love Prevails collection includes a range of bombers, crewnecks, cargo jackets, and more. A restrained palette of black and white dominates the lineup, further defined by Chavarria’s signature embroidery. The designer’s last name appears across multiple garments, underscoring the collaborative nature of the project.
Select pieces, such as cargo jackets, feature a rose embroidered on the left side, balanced by dual adidas trefoil logos on the right. Other designs incorporate a stylised W levitating above the trefoil, with Chavarria Fine Athletic Fashions inscribed beneath, reinforcing the collection’s distinct visual identity.
adidas Originals x Willy Chavarria Love Prevails highlights how sportswear can have an important function in supporting love and community. The collection will be launched on Saturday, April 18th, 2026, on adidas. com and in selected retail stores.
