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Photo by LEE JEONG MU\/Imazins via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Somewhere in 1969 a basketball player laced up a low-slung leather shoe with a rubber cap over the toe, and the Superstar<\/strong> began a career considerably longer than his own. It passed from the court to the sidewalk, then into the hands of Run-DMC<\/strong>, who rapped it into the canon in 1986 and made the shell toe a form of identification. Its newest custodian arrived from another kind of stage altogether, since JENNIE<\/strong> of BLACKPINK<\/strong> has spent the summer teasing her first co-created collection with adidas Originals<\/strong> and has now revealed its opening argument, a Superstar taken apart and rebuilt as a ballet slipper, christened the Superstar Square Ballet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When the Shell Toe Learned to Point<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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The intervention is more surgical than it first appears, since the laces have vanished along with the tongue, leaving a slip-on construction and a wide, foot-baring opening held in place by a tonal elastic strap across the midfoot. A leather ribbon sits tied over the forefoot, borrowed straight from the vocabulary of the pointe shoe and applied with a lightness that keeps the whole thing from tipping into costume. Underneath, the outsole has been squared off and given a hybrid tread of herringbone and circles, a reminder that the shoe still intends to be walked in. The branding stays discreet, with JENNIE’s custom tag and the Trefoil<\/strong> tucked onto the insole, visible only to the wearer, which is the most confident placement available.<\/p>\n

Two Colorways, Zero Hesitation<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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It comes in a crisp off-white and an inverted black, both resolved in premium leather with the tonal rigor of a well-edited wardrobe, and both landing on September 1. The timing is immaculate, since fashion has spent the season dismantling the boundary between the sneaker and the flat, sending lace-ups down runways and turning dancewear into daily uniform. This particular hybrid answers the question with unusual clarity, keeping the heritage silhouette recognizable while removing everything that made it feel athletic. Style it as JENNIE would, with something abbreviated and high-waisted, or let it do the quiet work under wide denim, where the ribbon becomes the only detail anyone notices. The result belongs to that rare category of collaboration in which the celebrity name explains nothing, and the shoe explains itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":42787,"featured_media":115091,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[17],"yoast_head":"\nBLACKPINK\u2019s JENNIE Just Reinvented the Adidas Superstar as a Ballet Flat \u2013 And It\u2019s Surprisingly Chic - Grazia USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"JENNIE reworks the adidas Superstar into a slip-on ballet flat with a leather ribbon, arriving in two monochrome colorways on September 1.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennie-adidas-superstar-square-ballet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BLACKPINK\u2019s JENNIE Just Reinvented the Adidas Superstar as a Ballet Flat \u2013 And It\u2019s Surprisingly Chic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"JENNIE reworks the adidas Superstar into a slip-on ballet flat with a leather ribbon, arriving in two monochrome colorways on September 1.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennie-adidas-superstar-square-ballet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Grazia USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-25T08:04:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2225011976-1-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1922\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennie-adidas-superstar-square-ballet\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennie-adidas-superstar-square-ballet\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Anna Maria Giano\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/7d9ae01fa238788279cacd8399e47e9f\"},\"headline\":\"BLACKPINK\u2019s JENNIE Just Reinvented the Adidas Superstar as a Ballet Flat \u2013 And It\u2019s Surprisingly Chic\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-25T10:13:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-08-25T08:04:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennie-adidas-superstar-square-ballet\/\"},\"wordCount\":404,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Fashion\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennie-adidas-superstar-square-ballet\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennie-adidas-superstar-square-ballet\/\",\"name\":\"BLACKPINK\u2019s JENNIE Just Reinvented the Adidas Superstar as a Ballet Flat \u2013 And It\u2019s Surprisingly Chic - 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