Ma Yansong Reads the Salomon XT-RIDGE Like a Building

Why would a sneaker catch an architect's eye?As a new silhouette branching off the XT family, the XT-RIDGE carries Salomon's mountain DNA while taking a sharp turn in design. It sets aside the exposed SensiFit cage that has long defined the XT line's visual language, drawing instead on the layered light and shadow of modern architecture. Using semi-translucent TPU, it reworks the idea of a ridgeline with a more restrained hand, translating performance know-how from the mountains into...