Cause who doesn t love a adidas tubular black little friendly sneaker competition to make the other step their game up?This year brought us more collaborations than I think we ve ever seen when it comes to sneakers. Not only did we have  the usual brands dishing out collaborations left and right like New Balance, Asics, PUMA, Vans, and Saucony, but we also had adidas, Nike and even Jordan Brand joining in on the fun. Some of the most noteworthy collabs that dropped in 2015 include the Just Don x Air Jordan 2 (btw there s another colorway expected to release in January), the Pigalle x Nike LeBron 12 Elite, the Supreme x Air Jordan 5s, and the PSNY x Air Jordan 12.

Collaborations are a win for everybody because two different brands/companies are able to work together to get their name out there and most of the time the quality of the release is better than their inline work. So I expect to see more collaborations than ever in 2016 so everybody can stay winning adidas shadow together.What s better than two of the best rappers/entertainers in the music industry making music? I ll tell you what, two of the best rappers/entertainers making sneakers! Kanye West won the Footwear News  Shoe Of The Year award in 2015 thanks to his adidas Yeezy Boosts and it s hard to pick someone more deserving.

Everyone would adidas tubular white be all over it.As the caption on the photo above implies, I felt some kind of way ranking this pair so highly despite it being such a sorely missed release by so many. Still, there is no denying the year adidas has had, the continued impact of Kanye West nor the way both the brand and Kanye completely stole the show at All Star weekend 2015. The original 750 release set the bar for what would be a flawless year of releases for the industry-shifting collaboration.It felt like sneakerheads unanimously decided that the all white colorway of the Adidas Ultra Boost was the best (not long after Kanye took to wearing them) but regardless of color the adidas tubular grey Adidas Ultra Boost is my favorite new model of the year.

Interestingly, last year I named the Adidas Pure Boost as my favorite new model and the year before that the Energy Boost . So, yeah, I m a Boost junkie  but you should be too, it blows everything else away.The Yeezy Boost 750 is something of an enigma to me. I can t look at it and see a sneaker really. In fact I ve always said that while at Nike, Kanye had sneakers and now with Adidas he has footwear. It s a shoe that grew on me once I accepted that fact. The suede upper and gray colorway make it a perfect complement to so many outfits.There has already been a lot of speculation as to what brand  won 2015.

Unlike the NFL, it comes from a fair place, as Kanye seemed to position Kylie as a prominent part of his Yeezy deal with adidas. But did we have to know about it and was it really necessary to have that aired out on Twitter for the world to read about? Shouldn t this have stayed a conversation between family? Not all  Family Business  needs to be out there& I love everything about the Beluga colorway of the adidas Yeezy Boost 350 V2 except for one glaring sore spot: the  SPLY-350 wording on the Solar Red stripe. Without the branding, the shoe is almost perfect.

The trends adidas zx 500 may come and go, but the timeless quality of the PUMA Clyde will endure even if Jenner or Rihanna were to move on to other endeavors in the future. To end the year with a Diamond Supply Co. collaboration means that PUMA is interested in blowing up the Clyde in a way that maybe we haven t seen since the man himself was blowing our minds with his forward-trending attire in the 1970s.Besides the AF1 Ultra Flyknits, the only pairs of kicks I ve worn more this year are my mismatched Internationalists and a handful of adidas Ultra Boosts.