On 22 February 2026, at London Fashion Week, Simone Rocha debuted her first collaboration with Adidas Originals, introducing a capsule where ballet silhouettes, crystal details, and ribbons collide with gym-uniform staples.
On 22 February 2026, at London Fashion Week, Simone Rocha debuted her first collaboration with Adidas Originals, introducing a capsule where ballet silhouettes, crystal details, and ribbons collide with gym-uniform staples.
February 22, 2026
The reveal happened inside Rocha’s Fall/Winter 2026 show at Alexandra Palace Theatre in North London. Sportswear entered her runway as a full category: lace-edged boilersuits, frilled tracksuits, and sneakers treated like evening pieces through pearl studding and bow-laced striping.
The footwear is where balletcore meets blokecore turns literal. Coverage points to Mary Jane-inspired shoes that build Adidas Three Stripes into bow-style lacing, ballerina-style sneakers finished with crystal embellishment, and slip-ons punctuated with subtle pearl details. And slip-on mules crafted from pony hair, a material popularised by Wales Bonner's sold-out Adidas Samba sneakers, featured pearls in place of Adidas’s three stripes. That sits alongside the blokecore signals on the runway: oversized track jackets, satin bombers, and knee-high soccer-player socks, styled with Simone Rocha’s usual romantic tension.
Branding does the same hybrid work. A re-engineered logo nests the adidas Trefoil inside Simone Rocha’s ribbon motif, spreading across pieces like tech-nylon dresses, socks, and bags, an identity merge designed to read at street distance.
As for the biggest collaboration energy, it plugs two massive 2026 currents into one product system. Balletcore already owns the shoe conversation, while blokecore keeps feeding sport silhouettes into everyday styling. Simone Rocha and Adidas translate both into items with clear retail logic: track layers, bags, and multiple sneaker shapes designed for repeat wear, plus runway-level embellishment for collectors.
Simone Rocha x Adidas works because it treats sport as a silhouette language and romance as construction, then lets a ballet shoe and a football sock share the same outfit without either one losing power.
