Korn has lastly collaborated with clothes model Adidas practically 30 years after releasing their music “A.D.I.D.A.S.”, which was very a lot not concerning the model. The collaboration is accessible on the band’s web site and features a recreation of Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis‘ iconic purple tracksuit. The recreated jacket prices $200 and the pants price one other $100, so get your pockets prepared! There are additionally some t-shirts and sneakers obtainable, which you can check out here.
Regardless of the music utilizing the model’s identify as an acronym of their 1996 monitor, Korn in the end signed a take care of clothes firm Puma in 1998. Adidas actually despatched the band some gear, however the two by no means formally collaborated on something… till now.
Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis instructed Kerrang! in 2021 that he was fairly pissed on the time that Adidas turned the band down. Doubly so in recent times that different artists acquired offers with the corporate, however not Korn.
“Get this shit,” stated Davis. “Their reply was, ‘adidas is a sports activities firm. We do sports activities, not music.’ I’d look out into the gang and see all these children sporting adidas shit at our reveals, however they could not do something for us. You then’ve acquired Kanye West and all these different folks with their very own [custom] sneakers [in the years since]. What the flying fuck?!”
“We switched to Puma as a result of they instructed us they’d put us in a business and provides us somewhat cash to put on their shit. We had been identical to, ‘Fuck yeah! That is greater than adidas ever did for us!’ It wasn’t a sell-out factor. It was about respect.”
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