In an era where fashion leans ever further into AI-generated slickness and hyper-commercial homogeneity, Adidas x Song for the Mute 006 arrives like static through the signal with its textured, unpredictable and uncompromising style. The penultimate drop in a cult-followed collaboration, Adidas Song for the Mute 006 doesn’t just frame your look, it serves as a reflection of the disconnect and duality we currently see all around us.
Built around themes of imperfection, rebellion and emotional texture, this small, yet highly considered capsule fuses elevated fabrication with offbeat detailing that dares to ask: what if anti-perfection is the point?
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The standout silhouette and a personal favourite of the ZOO team, is the ADIZERO PR SFTM. A technical runner lifted from the vault and reimagined through a post-functionalist lens. Lightweight and highly engineered, yet distressed, raw and emotionally worn-in. It blurs the line between sport and story. Designed with Adidas’ elite performance DNA, but filtered through SFTM’s unmistakably poetic lens, this is footwear that belongs as much in a gallery as it does in the streets. A future cult classic, a contradiction in motion and entirely wearable because of it.
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Retaining their design ethos, the ready-to-wear pieces in 006 don’t shout, they simmer. The oversized shirt jacket, trimmed with a custom SFTM metal tag with enamel detailing and finished with mismatched buttons in varying shapes and colours, is subtle anarchy; a piece that understands that “off” is sometimes better than “on.” The rebellious spirit continues in the corduroy pants, cut from a premium velvet plaid with a fluid drape and just the right amount of vintage déjà vu. They wear like trousers but feel like protest.
There’s also the oversized fit jacket, nodding back to Drop 004. An echo of past ideas, refracted through the present. It’s the kind of layering piece that doesn’t fight for space but creates it, structurally soft, architecturally awkward, intentionally oversized. It wears like a favourite memory and is a staple for the coming winter.
Then there's another personal Zoo favourite, SFTM’s must have knitwear. Heavy yet breathable, crafted from combed cotton in moss stitch, a woven story of the collection's ethos incorporating a bold jacquard “6” on the front, marking the capsule’s identity and a symbol of continuity. Once again, mismatched buttons return, small defiant gestures structuring the message to subvert the expected and hint at something more raw, more human.
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In a social climate where mass uncertainty is met with manufactured calm, Song for the Mute’s aesthetic of considered chaos feels weirdly grounding. There’s elegance in the irregularity; beauty in the breakdown. Every piece feels like it’s been through something, much like the people wearing it.
This isn’t clothing for the sake of content. It’s designed for the emotionally attuned, the culturally aware and the sartorially brave.
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As the second-to-last chapter in the Adidas x SFTM collaboration, 006 doesn’t just evolve the dialogue, it distills it. Fewer pieces, but sharper focus. More texture, more emotion, more contradiction. It’s a capsule that doesn’t ask to be worn perfectly — it asks to be lived in.
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The Adidas Song for the Mute 006 collection, available at ZOO FASHIONS on Friday 10th October.
Because imperfection is the new uniform.
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