Dutch designer Simone Post has created a series of graphic rugs from old trainers ? one of the hardest fashion products to recycle ? for sportswear giant Adidas.
Post was invited to create the Stripped Back Stripes rugs for the new Adidas store in Paris after the sportswear company saw some of her previous work with recycled textiles.

Instead of working directly with offcuts from the manufacturing process, as she has done with previous collaborations, Post chose to focus on finding a way to re-use old sports shoes.
"What is very interesting about working with shoes is that it became a much bigger market recently," Post told Dezeen. "Sport shoes are not only for sports, but people just wear them all the time. Almost everybody owns a pair."
She discovered that trainers were among the hardest products to recycle because they are made from so many different components, often involving multiple types of hard and soft plastic, metals and textiles held together with very strong glue.
"It is a very hard material to work with, because it is impossible to separate the one from the other," said Post. "So we collaborated with I:CO, a German company who specialise in recycling shoes."
"They first shred the entire shoe, and after the shredding process they start to divide the material into different qualities," she explained.
"So you get a dust fraction with a lot of textile waste and also one with harder plastics and one with sof...