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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Maddy Mussen

5 cult trainers to buy for summer 2025 — and the ones to swerve

We all remember the day the Adidas Samba died like it was yesterday. One day, the streets of London were littered with colourful gum sole trainers, and the next they were gone.

This mass extinction was instigated by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, when he debuted a pair of box-fresh Sambas in April 2024, effectively nuking the trendy trainer and all its hype.

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