DIOS Puts Houston Chrome and Praying Hands on the adidas Megaride S2

adidas keeps handing its 2026 road trip roster a new shoe, and Houston’s DIOS just got the keys to the Megaride S2.

DIOS stands for Did It Ourselves, and the Houston label has never been shy about explaining itself. Founded in 2020 by rapper LE$ and multidisciplinary creative Jorge “Jorgey” Casanova, the brand grew out of a Midtown storefront and a shared belief that nobody was coming to hand either of them a career. That ethos is baked into the name itself, and it is the same ethos adidas leaned on when it tapped DIOS for a “Homies & Familia” adidas Superstar XLG collide late last year, a friends-and-family rel that sold out around a block party and car show outside the brand’s own store. That connection was DIOS’s introduction to the Three Stripes’ ongoing project of tour the United States and pull grassroots, self-built streetwear labels into its orbit, dressing them in the Superstar first and, for the labels that stick, handing them something bigger next. DIOS has stuck. For 2026, the brand is one of the names getting the follow-up treatment on the adidas Megaride S2, joining LA’s Hellstar, whose flame-gradient version of the shoe opened the series with a global release earlier this month.

The Megaride S2 itself is a deep-catalogue pull, an early-2000s running sil that adidas revived in 2025 with a mold cage over mesh, a zipper shroud hid the laces, and a chunky Megaride cushioning unit stacked into the heel. It has spent the past year becoming a favorite blank canvas for exactly this kind of collide, already having passed through the hands of Willy Chavarria and Hellstar before DIOS got hold of it.

 

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Where the brand’s first adidas project worked in canvas and gold hardware, this one goes almost entirely black. The upper is dressed head to toe in black leather, built from ornamental panelling that reads more like upholstery work than a standard sneaker construction, a nod DIOS has made explicitly before to Houston’s car culture and the custom-build mentality that runs through it. It is the kind of detail that rewards a slow look rather than a passing one, panel seams and paneling breaks doing the storytelling instead of a loud graphic or an oversized logo.

That restraint carries through to the branding. Instead of shouting DIOS across the toe box, the connection marks itself in smaller, more consider places: special brand sits on both the front and back of the shoe, a quieter approach than the brand’s debut Superstar, which wore its “Did It Ourselves” motto across a translucent outsole and stashed a pocket behind the tongue for good measure.

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The sig move here is on the zipper tabs, which have been reworked into a pair of silver praying hands, a motif DIOS has stitched onto its Superstar heels in embroidered form and now render as sculpt hardware instead. A cross sits on the toe box in the same silver finish, giving the shoe a devotional current running underneath all that automotive detailing, fitting for a brand whose entire name translates, in Spanish, to gods.

Down below, adidas’ Megaride sole unit has been greyed out rather than left in its usual bright, technical colorway, a decision that keeps the eye on the upper’s leatherwork and hardware instead of competing with it. It is a build-dominant black through and through, broken only by those silver accents and whatever daylight catches the panel seams.

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DIOS joins Hellstar as the second brand to graduate from adidas’ Superstar tour of independent streetwear labels onto the Megaride S2, and the pairing makes sense on paper: both were built by people who spent years working without a corporate safety net before adidas came calling. LE$ has been explicit about that reasoning in past interviews around the Superstar rel, frame the partner less as a co-sign he needed and more as proof of something DIOS had already built on its own. Bringing DIOS into the Megaride S2 rollout extends that same logic to a shoe with a very different outline and a very different audience, bet that a tech Y2K runner can carry the same street-level weight as the Superstar once DIOS gets its hands on the materials.

Price, a style code, and an exact rel date for the DIOS x adidas Megaride S2 had not been confirmed through official channels at the time of writing. Given the cadence of the Superstar rollout and Hellstar’s own recent $200 global Megaride S2 launch through the CONFIRMED App and select stores, a similar let go structure looks likely, though nothing has been locked in publicly yet.