Published 16:11 IST, October 23rd 2020
Pogba, Aubameyang, Gnabry pose in Pharrell Williams' reimagined ADIDAS jerseys
Paul Pogba, Marcus Rashford and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang donned the Pharell Williams Adidas jerseys, which draw inspiration from the club's past designs.
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Grammy-winning artist Pharrell Williams has fused his love for art with football, bringing to life some of most iconic football jerseys of past through a collaboration between Humanrace and Adidas. Williams, who is creative director of Humanrace, reimagined vint jerseys of five football clubs - Arsenal, Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Real Madrid - to create hand-painted designs with an added bit of flair.
“History is what shapes future, and sometimes in order to look forwards, first we need to look back," Pharell Williams said on launch of his latest collab with Adidas. " most important part of process with this collection was to learn of each club’s legacies and how each defining moment of ir histories were captured and preserved from a design perspective."
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Pharrell Williams Man United jersey
Man United stars Paul Pogba, Bru Fernandes, Marcus Rashford, Aaron Wan Bissaka and Mason Greenwood donned Pharrell Williams Adidas jerseys as y flaunted artwork on shirt, inspired by from club's iconic swflake blue and white print. pattern was first seen on a Man United shirt in away kits of 1990-92. design was born in streets of Manchester, kwn for its famous house music scene of late 80s.
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Pharrell Williams Arsenal jersey
Continuing trend of recreating old jerseys from 1990s to design Adidas Humancare jerseys for Arsenal, Williams took inspiration from famous 'bruised banana' jersey that headlined Gunners' outfits in 90s. Fusing colour blue with yellow in a tie-dye approach, Williams modernised design by giving it a hand-painted, paint-bleed effect update.
zigzag graphic on jersey is reminiscent of early days of Arsene Wenger at Emirates. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Keiran Tierney and Gunners legend Ian Wright donned two shades of jersey.
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Pharell Williams recreated Juventus' pink shirt from 2015-16 season, which also marked first year of partnership between Adidas and Italian giants. For Bayern's Humanrace jersey, Williams took inspiration from red home shirt worn by club from 1991-93. new Real Madrid jersey draws heavy inspiration from striking dragon jersey from 2014-15 season.
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Juventus will be first club to wear jersey on field, donning ir fourth kit against Hellas Verona on October 25. Bayern will wear Pharell Williams Adidas jerseys during ir next kckout match in DFB Pokal. remaining three clubs will don jersey during this weeks warm-up sessions ahead of ir respective league fixtures.
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(Im Credits: ADIDAS)
16:11 IST, October 23rd 2020