Unpaginated Edited by Thomas Marecki Foreword by Ulf Poschardt 28 x 29.5 cm Language: English Hardback Publisher: Marok / Lodown in association with adidas 2005
For the Superstar's 35th birthday in 2005, the book did not come out of an agency. It was made by Thomas Marecki, alias Marok, the Berliner behind Lodown magazine, and it reads like a magazine maker's work. Jamel Shabazz's street photographs from 1980s New York, an interview with Lee Quiñones, Martha Cooper, Run-DMC, Bobbito Garcia and Gary Aspden, the man at adidas behind the 35 anniversary editions, follow the shell-toe from the basketball court to hip-hop and graffiti. Ulf Poschardt, the author of DJ Culture, writes the preface.
This copy comes with an original French invitation to the Superstar 35 pop-up shop at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2005. For the press version of the same anniversary, with its CD-ROM and DVD, see the adidas Superstar 35th Anniversary PR Book.
