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At the top of October, Caroline Hu made her Paris Fashion Week debut with a Spring/Summer 2024 presentation featuring voluminous, frilly dresses and equally flouncy adidas shoes.

Literally, Hu had the popular Samba looking quite pretty in its new puffy handmade silk dress. Then, there were the other adidas sneakers realized with entirely ruffled builds for their uppers. Even the Three-Stripes logo got all fluffed up.

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Since launching her eponymous label in 2018, Hu has captured attention with her ruffled designs, which rests somewhere on the fashion spectrum between romantic and wild. And now, she's translated her distinct touch to adidas' favored silhouettes — and folks want all parts of it. Me included.

The adidas Samba has received some pretty great spins recently, including those cowprinted pairs by Notitle and Wales Bonner's gleaming touches. But ruffled Sambas, let alone adidas sneakers? It's unheard of, but undoubtedly refreshing and pleasing to see.

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adidas served as the footwear sponsor for Reverie by Caroline Hu, Hu's line for the Paris show. It's also worth mentioning that several outlets confirmed the adidas shoes were merely custom-made takes for the presentation. In other words, they aren't an official collaboration...yet. Maybe.

But given the general response to the shoes (people are both thrilled and frilled about them), perhaps we'll see an official ruffled Caroline Hu x adidas collab down the road. Hopefully.

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