The result is a range of apparel and footwear styles for the city-dweller who casts off the shackles of conventional city-life wherever and whenever possible. Blacked-out outerwear, army green tracksuits and stealthy grayscale running wear are punctuated by flashes of orange, adding high-visibility in the form of a packable jacket and base-layer tee.

The orange also appears across the three new footwear styles: as internal support on the zipped uppers of a mid-cut GSG9 interpretation; as lacing on a tech-driven new Climacool model; as a midsole on an adizero shoe otherwise rendered entirely in shades of black.

The SS19 collection is accompanied by campaign imagery that plunges the apparel and footwear into their intended environment. Shot along the trails and forests that run above the Los Angeles basin, many of the runners’ movements are captured in the dramatic glare of specially-installed floodlights, headlamps and tactical lights. All other illumination is provided by moonlight: a reminder that even on the edge of a vast urban sprawl, it is sometimes still possible to draw on the strengths of the natural world.

the adidas x Undefeated SS19 collection launches on the 11th of May at limitEDitions Barcelona .