Adidas Is Releasing a Darth Vader NMD_R1, Droid Superstar XLG and More Sneakers for Star Wars Day

Star Wars‘ pun-driven annual holiday is getting an assist from Adidas and a Japanese art gallery for a collection of three sneakers releasing this week.

Nanzuka has been tapped to curate the three-way collaboration featuring the Superstar XLG, NMD_R1 and Stan Smith models. All three sneakers take distinct approaches in pulling from different Star Wars characters, though they do all share an aversion to color.

The Superstar XLG, a remix of the classic shell-toed sneaker with oversized proportions...