Willy Chavarria x adidas Megaride Bones (KJ2033): releasing 3 October 2026

The Willy Chavarria x adidas Megaride Bones, style code KJ2033, drops on 3 October 2026. The pair is almost entirely black, colourway Core Black/Core Black/Better Scarlet, with concealed lacing and a voluminous Megaride sole with exposed cushioning. A high-top execution, KJ2034, arrives on the same day. Go through the store page on Soleback and part of the bill comes back.

Who is behind this

Willy Chavarria is one of the loudest names in menswear of the past few years. Born in 1967 in Huron, California, of Mexican and Irish descent, he launched his own label in 2015. Before that he worked for Ralph Lauren on the RLX line, and from 2021 to 2024 he was Senior Vice President of Design at Calvin Klein.

The trophy cabinet: a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in 2022, CFDA American Menswear Designer of the Year two years running in 2023 and 2024, and a place on the Time 100 list in 2025. This is not a designer who adds a logo to a finished shoe.

What Megaride is

Megaride is the adidas cushioning platform that, in Chavarria's hands, became the basis for a whole series. He has reworked it repeatedly: the Megaride AG, the Megaride AG XL, and a hybrid with the Copa Mundial football boot, where the classic upper landed on the same heavy tooling.

The common thread is proportion. Chavarria consistently inflates the shape of the shoe, the same way he inflates the cuts in his clothing collections, and that shift in scale is the real subject of the collaboration.

What KJ2033 looks like

• Colourway: Core Black/Core Black/Better Scarlet, black on black with a red accent

• Upper: smooth and leather-like, with organically shaped black elements wrapping around the sides

• Lacing: concealed, which keeps the shape clean and closed

• Better Scarlet details: tucked into the sole construction, visible only up close

• Sole: the voluminous Megaride unit with exposed cushioning

• Construction: synthetic upper, rubber outsole

• Fit: true to size

The Bones name points to the skeletal drawing Chavarria introduced earlier in the collection he built around the World Cup. The mesh inserts along the sides read like ribs showing through an outer layer.

What else arrives that day

• KJ2034: the high-top, with triangular leather flaps backed in mesh at the ankle, a leather covering across the forefoot, external padding and an internal mesh tongue

• LA6162: a third low execution, in silver

• KI7728: the Megaride Bones in cream white, alongside the main black pair

All three go on sale on 3 October through the adidas CONFIRMED app and selected partners.

Price and availability

adidas has not published a UK price for KJ2033 yet. European retail listings have opened at the upper end of the adidas Originals collaboration bracket, and Overkill has the pair going live online on 3 October at 16:00 CEST. The current rebate rate is on the store page on Soleback, and the full list of stores with active cashback sits in the Soleback catalogue.

Where to buy

• END.: Newcastle retailer with consistent adidas Originals coverage

• size?: high street chain, often holds sizes after launch day

• Footpatrol: London boutique that carried earlier Chavarria Megaride releases

• Solebox: Berlin chain with a UK storefront

• BSTN: German store shipping to the UK

• Overkill: Berlin store with the KJ2033 product page live, online release 3 October at 16:00 CEST

• Sneakersnstuff: Swedish store with a deep adidas Originals selection

What cashback is worth here

On a release at this level the rebate matters. Every £100 spent returns £3 at 3 per cent, £5 at 5 per cent and £8 at 8 per cent, so on a pair in this bracket the figure runs to a decent chunk of an order.

For the rebate to register, open the store page on Soleback before you buy and go through to the shop from there. If you would rather not remember every time, the Soleback extension prompts you to activate. New accounts also get the welcome bonus.

Watch outs for this release

• App versus browser: cashback registers on browser purchases, buying inside a retailer app usually will not track, and that includes the CONFIRMED app

• Codes from elsewhere: a voucher found outside Soleback can zero the commission, and then there is nothing to pay out from

• Launch time: Overkill opens online sales at 16:00 CEST, so have the account and delivery address set up beforehand

• Approval time: the rebate is released after the returns window closes

The bottom line

KJ2033 is the most restrained execution in the whole Chavarria Megaride series: black on black, concealed lacing and a red accent buried in the sole. All the work here goes into shape and proportion rather than colour. It drops on 3 October 2026, and if you are chasing the pair anyway, activating cashback takes seconds.