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Soccer living legend David Beckham teamed up with Undefeated's James Bond to collaborate on a collection for Adidas's Adidas Originals Series—resulting in a sporty-heritage blend of GoreTex and Harris Tweed. Dazed Digital has a pretty great Q&A with Bond, including the details on how this whole thing came about:
Victoria was a customer of ours and she put us into contact with David, who loved our stores. He already had the existing David Beckham adidas collaborations but he wanted a part of that to be sold through our channels. We had an impromptu store session where we opened late for them to shop and it went from there.And what happens when you go out in public with David Beckham:
Los Angeles is the land of entertainment and sports figures so for it was a pretty smooth transition. It wasn’t too much of a huge shit show as he’s really low key. Although I was with him in Milan and saw a girl broke down, crying in front of him. But that was Millan.· Beckham x Bond for Adidas [Dazed]