Running through time

The Adidas Archive: The Footwear Collection, 644pp, HK$1,300 Bold designs and epic moments make up the 100-year history of Adidas in a new Taschen tome. Brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes 100 years ago – and now, hundreds of innovative designs, epic moments and star-studded collaborations later, Taschen presents a review of the iconic sports shoe maker through more than 350 models, some never-before-seen prototypes and one-off originals. The Adidas Archive: The Footwear Collection, 644pp, HK$1,300 As a way of customising his products to athletes' specific needs, Adolf Dassler asked them to return their worn footwear, with all the shoes eventually ending up in his attic. Along the way, we encounter shoes worn by West Germany's football team during its "miraculous" 1954 World Cup win and those worn by Kathrine Switzer when she ran the Boston Marathon in 1967, before women were officially allowed to compete.