Though you might not have heard the name Axel Arigato before 2016, chances are the brand made it into your wardrobe in some way over the last 12 months.

The sleek Swedish firm built its prolific reputation by releasing a new sneaker – each equally, if not more, stylish than the last – every week since 2014.

If that wasn’t enough to keep founders Albin Johansson and Max Svardh busy, the brand also opened a flagship store-cum-art-gallery in London’s Soho in October, launched a range of bags in November and even began work on a clothing line. Take Christmas off, will you fellas.

With 2016 being an endless procession of the trainer reissues we’ve waited decades for, it might come as a surprise that the kicks we covet most are in fact just a little over one year old.

That is, of course, unless you’ve found time to have even a cursory glance at Instagram. More than 1.3m square pictures were dedicated to documenting the Adidas NMD over the last 12 months. And with the Primeknit upper and Boost sole shoe receiving sell-out update after sell-out update, it’s easy to see how this new Adidas classic earned its (three) stripes (and its double-taps).