Sports group adidas has launched a second shoe design in collaboration with Chinese designer Dingyun Zhang.

This follows a successful first project earlier this year in which Mr Zhang produced a version of the Samba athletic shoe. His latest co-design with adidas is a capsule collection featuring the brand’s new Kouza silhouette as well as two Samba updates.

Resilience, mobility and breathability are the key attributes of the Kouza shoe, adidas said. It has an “exaggerated heel guard”, an extended outsole and taped seams, which the brand said created “a duality between the shoe’s mesh upper and rubber casing”.

The two new iterations of the Dingyun Zhang Samba, meanwhile, take the silhouette’s foundation and “reimagine it entirely in suede”.