L’ART and Salomon Return with a New Chapter of Speed and Style

April 8, 2026

April 8, 2026 /OUTDOOR SPORTSWIRE/ – L’ART and Salomon return with their third collaboration, continuing a partnership shaped by a shared obsession with speed. Founded in 2017, L’ART is the lifestyle expression of a creative universe originally born through the cult Parisian garage L’Art de L’Automobile. Blending automotive engineering, design and culture, the brand approaches vehicles, products and experiences as moving works of art. Since first collaborating in 2022, Salomon and L’ART have translated this intersection of craftsmanship and innovation into highly coveted footwear and apparel.

The latest collaboration brings together Salomon’s expertise in technical running footwear and L’ART’s automotive design language, spanning both performance and lifestyle. On the performance side, the S/LAB PHANTASM 3 appears as a race-ready road running silhouette engineered for pure speed and aerodynamic efficiency. On the lifestyle side, the ACS PRO L’ART reinterprets one of Salomon’s cult silhouettes through L’ART’s automotive lens, channeling the precision and visual codes of motorsport engineering while maintaining the technical DNA that made the ACS franchise a global favorite across style communities. Beyond footwear, the collaboration expands into a capsule of apparel and accessories designed to bridge performance and lifestyle, including racing apparel, warm-up kits and technical accessories.

“To me, shoes move people just like cars do,” says Arthur Kar, founder of L’ART and L’Art de L’Automobile. “The Phantasm 3 draws direct inspiration from sports cars, both in its look and in the technology behind it. Salomon engineered it with aerodynamic performance in mind, the same way you would design race cars. The connection between these two worlds felt natural, and I knew it had to be expressed the L’ART way while building an entire capsule around it.”

At the center of the launch is a cinematic campaign inspired by Salomon’s 2026 documentary on the development of the S/Lab Phantasm 3, following a team of visionary scientists working inside a special laboratory with one goal: to create the fastest shoe in the world. In their relentless pursuit of speed, they test a series of unexpected subjects inside a wind tunnel, from cars to elite runners and even a goat, pushing experimentation and innovation to the extreme. Inspired by the design and engineering story of the S/Lab Phantasm 3, the film draws a parallel between car racing and footwear innovation. The shoe becomes the ultimate racing machine, while the scientists embody the pit crew behind its development. The aerodynamic flow patterns generated during wind tunnel testing became a key visual language throughout the project, directly inspiring the graphics and color gradients of the design. These experiments ultimately lead to the creation of the S/Lab Phantasm 3 L’ART, a shoe engineered for maximum speed. Around it, the collaboration expands into a broader L’ART & Salomon capsule, extending this racing-inspired universe across footwear and apparel. Throughout the film, the scientists wear the ACS PRO L’ART as their uniform, a subtle nod to the meeting point between performance, engineering and style.

Exclusively available April 8 at lartlart.com, on April 11 in Paris at Salomon Champs-Élysées, Salomon Sportstyle Le Marais and The Broken Arm. Launching globally on April 14, the collection will be available online at salomon.com, and at Salomon selected retail stores and retail partners.

Press Contact:

salomon@ledecompany.com

About the Campaign

Photography by Oliver Hadlee Pearch
Videography by Eliel Ford
Campaign Models: Luna Bijl, Ruben Moreira, Africa Peñalver

About Salomon

Salomon is the modern mountain sport lifestyle brand creating innovative, premium and authentic footwear, apparel and winter sports equipment in the French Alps. We’re more than innovators, we’re futurists. We don’t predict trends, we shape the future. At the Annecy Design Center, designers, engineers and athletes intersect to explore the white space of tomorrow and create the future of sports and culture.

About L’ART

Each of us carries a unique automotive memory : a long drive, a design, a smell, a song on the radio, a mechanical feeling, a perfect stretch of road, a fleeting moment of freedom. L’Art de L’Automobile is born from these stories. At the crossroads of automotive culture, art and fashion, L’ART and L’Art de L’Automobile explore cars not only as high-performance machines and engineering masterpieces, but as universal icons: symbols of identity, lifestyle, and self-expression. From the careful curation of rare and exceptional luxury vehicles to the creation of authentic and timeless collections, we translate the spirit of automobiles into a new dimension.

Credits:

@lart @salomon @salomonsportstyle @salomonrunning

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