adidas originals x SPEZIAL - Acid Winter

Focusing on the cultural phenomenon of the warehouse party, ‘Acid Winter’ rehashes the inextricable link between fashion and music, between adidas and Acid House. The history of the mid-1980s is relived as Acid House first made its way to the underground warehouse parties within the inner cities for the first time, taking on a new look, ethos and audience in the process. The stylistic legacy which those first generation ravers created endures still, forever pumping out of 21st century sound systems and stomping in the soles of the adidas Original in 2018. ‘It was a feeling that it was meant to be here, it was meant to happen in this town,’ the narrator says of the Northern location, Blackburn.  

Direction: Nick Griffiths
Executive Producers: Heidi Fearon for &SON Films, Gary Aspden
Production: Shun Louis Bellieni for &SON Films
Director of Photography: Peter Drinkell
Editor: Peter Croker
Colourist: Ludovic Roussaux at OKAY Studio
Soundtrack: People, Places & Things
Musical Supervision: Gabe Gurnsey

Dedicated to all the Blackburn party people past and present.