Another day, another delightfully slim adidas sneaker remade in the Samba's image. Who's complaining?

The adidas Handball Spezial Lo Pro Core shoe takes a delightfully slim silhouette and makes it even skinnier. The GLP-1-ification of footwear continues.

Like other members of adidas' slim sneaker lineage, the Handball Spezial Lo Pro Core sneaker wears a low-profile suede upper.

Unlike a traditional adidas Handball Spezial, once seen as the Samba’s cooler, more niche sister, the slimmed-down Lo Pro Core shoe forgoes its signature beefy platform for a notably slimmer, arched-outsole. 

Elsewhere, the sneaker wears a black leather Three Stripes, an ultra-common colorway in the Samba-verse, and matching heel tab, which provide a sophisticated contrast to the shoe's rugged suede upper.

adidas' Samba is the reigning benchmark for slim sneakers, and this is expertly evidenced by the Handball Spezial Low Pro Core's Samba-like accoutrements, like the T-shaped toe box and retro low-profile design, hallmarks of the Samba's DNA and a large part of what made the shoe so popular.

Available on the adidas website on December 12 for $100, this grayed-out Handball Spezial Low Pro Core sneaker represents the new vanguard of flat sneakers in a (semi) post-Samba world.

Just take a look at the blacked-out Handball Spezial Lo, which, to be clear, is different than the aforementioned Lo Pro, or the adidas Volley Plimsole. Crispier, slimmer-than-slim sneakers that bring another layer of textural intrigue to the decidedly calm world of flat adidas sneakers are on the up in a big way.

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