Superstar Rabbit Hole Sold Out? The Closest Grey Match

The closest shoe you can actually buy right now is the adidas Superstar ADV in Grey Suede (style IG7574) — a fully shaggy suede, shell-toe sneaker that carries the same fuzzy grey texture as the sold-out adidas x Melting Sadness “Grey Bunny” Superstar, minus the rabbit ears, buckle straps, and resale markup. If that exact colorway isn’t in your size, two more Superstar ADV and Superstar 82 grey options get close, and one “default” grey Superstar most shoppers land on actually misses the texture that made the original collab worth chasing.

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Why the names keep colliding

“Adidas Superstar ADV Grey” and the Melting Sadness “Rabbit Hole” grey pair are unrelated products that happen to share a name pattern. The Superstar ADV is adidas Skateboarding’s ongoing, cup-soled version of the Superstar — a standing model line with rotating seasonal colorways, several of them grey. The Rabbit Hole pair is a 2022 collaboration with the Chinese streetwear label Melting Sadness, built around a bunny character named KARORO and a cave-art storyline, released in small batches and never restocked. They both start from the same shell-toe pattern, so a shopper who searches one ends up in results for the other.

What actually made the Grey Bunny hard to find

The Melting Sadness collaboration reworked the Superstar into “boot-like” silhouettes with long rabbit ears extending from the upper and hardware buckle straps, with some pairs finished in shaggy suede meant to evoke a “surreal primitive jungle,” according to SNKRDUNK’s coverage of the release. The grey colorway, cataloged as GZ6989 in a Grey Three/Grey Two/Grey Five scheme, was part of that limited run and has not returned to adidas’ own retail channels since. Melting Sadness collaborations with adidas have generally followed this pattern — a related pair designed with Sean Wotherspoon’s Round Two label was earmarked for an in-person ComplexCon drop rather than a general release, per Highsnobiety’s reporting on that collaboration, which is why the line trades on resale instead of restocking.

Because resale demand for the Rabbit Hole name is high, listings using that branding also turn up on general marketplaces outside adidas.com and established consignment platforms. Treat anything sold under the “Rabbit Hole” or “Grey Bunny” name that isn’t listed by adidas or a verified reseller as unconfirmed — you can’t check materials or construction on an unauthorized reproduction before it ships.

The shaggy grey suede ADV is the nearest match

The Superstar ADV “Grey Suede” (IG7574) uses a fully shaggy suede upper that extends into the overlays, finished in a tonal Grey Three/Grey Three/Core Black scheme with a color-matched shell toe and sole unit, according to House of Heat’s release coverage. White lateral “Superstar” branding and a silver-and-black tongue tag break up the grey, and the pair ships with a second, subdued set of grey laces alongside the neon green pair it comes on. Underneath the suede, it carries the same skate-oriented build as the rest of the ADV line: a hidden Adituff layer in high-wear areas, double-stitched eyestay seams, and a molded EVA sockliner, per adidas’ own product listing.

The shell toe itself dates to 1970, when adidas added a rubber cap to the basketball version of the shoe to protect players’ toes during play — the detail that earned the whole family its “shell toe” nickname, according to adidas’ own history of the design. Every shoe discussed here, collaboration or not, is built on that same toe cap, which is why they read as visually related even when the branding is completely different.

Where the newer grey ADV colorways fit

adidas Skateboarding rotates the ADV’s grey options rather than keeping one permanent SKU. A newer pair, Dark Grey/Aurora Onix/Chalk White (style HQ9289), reached adidas.com in December 2025 and mixes leather panels with suede rather than going fully shaggy. It’s worth checking if IG7574 is missing your size, though the leather sections mean it reads slightly less “furry” up close than the fully-shag version. A darker option, Carbon/Carbon/Collegiate Purple (style JR7409), also sits in the current lineup and swaps the neon accents for a purple pop if a plain monochrome grey isn’t a requirement. Both are listed on adidas’ Superstar ADV product pages, though size availability moves independently of what’s shown as “in stock” on the category page, so it’s worth checking directly before assuming a specific size is there.

If the shag texture isn’t the priority

Not everyone chasing a grey shell-toe Superstar wants a skate shoe’s cupsole bulk. The Superstar 82 (style IG9270), a retro reissue that reached adidas.com in September 2024, uses a smooth grey leather upper with a deliberately yellowed, vintage-look sole rather than suede, described by KicksOnFire’s release coverage as a Grey/Cloud White/Core Black colorway with the classic slimmer Superstar build instead of the ADV’s reinforced construction. It’s the closer pick if the goal is a clean grey Superstar for everyday wear rather than the collab’s textured look — but it drops the fuzzy surface entirely, so it doesn’t actually resemble the Rabbit Hole pair up close, and it’s been harder to find in stock across retailers since its release than the ADV colorways above.

Skip the plain grey Superstar if texture is the reason you’re searching

The shoe most shoppers land on by default when they type “grey superstar” is the standard Superstar Shoes in grey (style JS1425), which uses a leather-and-synthetic upper rather than suede. It carries the same shell toe and zigzag 3-Stripe edging as every other pair here, and it’s a perfectly good sneaker on its own terms — but it’s the wrong pick for this specific comparison. A glossy leather upper doesn’t replicate the shaggy, textured surface that made the Melting Sadness grey pair visually distinct in the first place, which is the one detail most searches for a “similar” alternative are actually asking about.

If the goal is the Grey Bunny itself rather than a lookalike, resale and consignment platforms remain the only channel — adidas has not restocked the Melting Sadness collaboration since its original run, and nothing in adidas’ current Superstar or Superstar ADV lineups indicates a re-release is planned. For everyone else, the shaggy suede ADV gets close enough that the difference mostly comes down to the rabbit ears.