Until now, each one of MM6 Maison Margiela’s Salomon sneaker collaborations has been wildly outlandish. Whether that means thigh-high trail boots or unorthodox sneakers with drawstring bags for uppers, Margiela’s Salomons to date have been anything but conventional.
This season, though, the two French labels have cooked up a much more wearable shoe in the form of the Margiela ACS Pro, an overdyed iteration of Salomon’s tech-heavy multifaceted trail runner. Everyone loves the Salomon ACS Pro, so it's about time that it got a luxury makeover.
Arriving in three colorways, Margiela’s collaborative ACS Pro is a calmer, more casual footwear proposal than its original form thanks mostly to softened graphic lines around the toecap.
That being said, the sneaker still boasts everything you’d expect of the silhouette, including Agile Chassis System, an ultra-breathable 3D open mesh, and laminated rubber panels, but with the neat addition of Margiela’s circled six logo on the tongue slot and heel.
Margiela’s Salomon ACS Pro, which drop on sites like END. come October 26, comes less than one month after the release of far less-wearable Margiela x Salomon Cross Waders, which first hit the runways at Milan Fashion Week earlier in 2023.
Knee high and undeniably the pair’s most eccentric release to date, the collaborative Cross Wader boots are a prime example of what MM6 Maison Margiela’s Salomon collaborations represent: a fusion of performance and high-end design that appeals to the upper echelon of fashion without entirely ditching the utility that informs everything Salomon does.
Of course, the unification of luxury and performance wear isn’t anything new, there’s just been more of it of late. However, since Margiela’s first Salomon collaboration back late last year, the pair have most certainly raised the benchmark when it comes to opulent sneakers.
It just so happens that only now have MM6 Maison Margiela and Salomon finally released a shoe in the ASC Pro that’s actually wearable on an everyday basis. Unless you work a job that demands thigh-high Salomon waders, perhaps.
