We know you've been secretly hoping someone would dovetail the two big loves in your life - classical music and athletic shoes. And so Adidas, ever the divining-rod for retail culture's next appetite even before retail culture knows it, has obliged.
Introducing the Lang Lang Adidas Gazelle. Sleek. Aerodynamic. Black. Gold. Hits stores this month.
The $85 shoe has the "Lang Lang name in Chinese at the heels as well as a silhouette of the pianist in typical concert pose. Moreover the inside of the sneaker links to Lang Lang’s music in having golden piano pedals printed on the sock liners," Adidas says.
Buy a pair today, ties the laces together, and throw them over the nearest telephone wire while mumbling a chant for the pianist's career.
Lang Lang, BTW, is to be the subject of a New Yorker profile by David Remnick, we understand from Inquirer colleague Jennifer Lin. Remnick was tailing the pianist in China while Lin met up with the Philadelphia Orchestra on tour in Beijing.
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Peter Dobrin has been writing about classical music and the arts for The Inquirer since 1989. He earned an undergraduate degree in performance from the University of Miami, and received a master's degree in music criticism from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
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