L'Art De L'Automobile x Salomon Collection
Release Date: April 14th, 2026
Speed is the common language. The L'Art de L'Automobile x Salomon Spring/Summer 2026 Collection arrives as the third chapter of a partnership between two French institutions that have spent their histories obsessed with the same fundamental question — what does it look like when something moves as fast as it possibly can? Arthur Kar's Parisian automotive lifestyle label and Salomon's technical running division have found the answer twice before. This time, they have gone further, deeper, and faster than either previous collaboration dared to go.
The collection is anchored by two silhouettes that sit at opposite ends of the speed spectrum while sharing the same aerodynamic philosophy. The S/Lab Phantasm 3 leads as the race-ready performance piece — a road running shoe engineered for pure speed, its innovative outer shroud layer designed to improve aerodynamics by up to 30% over its predecessor, the structure as close to a Formula 1 chassis as running footwear engineering currently allows. Infrared graphics inspired by heat mapping and airflow visualization move across the upper in the warm-to-cool color language of aerodynamic data — orange and red where resistance peaks, cool blue where the air finds its cleanest path. The number 42 appears on both silhouettes, anchoring the collection in the 42 kilometers of the Paris Marathon that served as the launch's physical and symbolic center point. The ACS Pro provides the lifestyle counterpart — a trail silhouette reimagined through L'ART's motorsport lens with a black base punctuated by a tri-color gradient of bright blue, yellow, and orange that replicates the visual blur of a vehicle at speed, the race car livery translated into a shoe that moves between starting line and street without changing its character.
Arthur Kar said it simply: shoes move people just like cars do. The collection proves it technically, visually, and at the level of a collaboration that has now spent three seasons demonstrating that the distance between the pit lane and the pavement is exactly the length of the right shoe. France engineered both. Paris launched them. The world gets them on April 14th.