Sportswear company Adidas has unveiled a striking, monochrome football kit for English club Manchester United with a pattern that looks like dazzle camouflage.
Set to be worn during the 2020/21 season, the Manchester United third kit features a black and white pattern that resembles dazzle camouflage ? an arrangement of contrasting geometric shapes painted on warships during world war one to make range finding difficult.
However, although the shirt's pattern has similarities with the 20th-century naval camouflage, Adidas did not look to the dazzle painting when designing the shirt.

"We call it dazzle because, obviously, it has a clear visual connection to it," said Inigo Turner, design director at Adidas. "But, it wasn't really part of our process in terms of the creation." "We looked at hacking culture, building things that are different from a collection of things which already exist, and then putting them together as an interesting combination," he told Dezeen.
"I think, due to the black and white colour it ended up looking a lot more like dazzle than it had done before we went to the monochromatic colour palette."

To create the shirt's striking look Adidas looked back at some of Manchester United's previous shirts and the history of Old Trafford stadium, which is celebrating its 110th anniversary this year.
Although the football club is not known for wearing stripes, the design team discovered that the club had worn them sever...