After years of the ever bigger, ever bulkier sneaker, there seems to be bit of a backlash: sneakers have become sleek, streamlined and, in a word, skinny.
“There was a shift, I think it was in the fall of 2023, where you saw a lot more Sambas on the street, with that slick sole,” said Federico Barassi, the vice president of menswear at the Canadian e-commerce site Ssense, citing the popular Adidas style.
