A-COLD-WALL* and Salomon’s ACS Pro Is Discounted at Retail and Above It on Resale

A-COLD-WALL* and Salomon released two ACS Pro colorways on July 1 at 200 pounds a pair. Ten weeks on, END. has one of them at 159 pounds and Foot District had the other cut from 200 euros to 160 before it sold through, while StockX has been clearing pairs at a three-month average near $258. A shoe discounted at retail and carrying a premium on resale at the same time is unusual, and it says more about how narrowly it was distributed than about how badly anyone wanted it.

The ACS Pro is not a 2021 revival of itself, which is how this post originally described it. It is a reissue of the Salomon GCS Pro from 2005, and Salomon’s own archive feature says so, alongside a line marking the ACS Pro as the return of that shoe twenty years later. GCS stood for Ground Control System. ACS stands for Agile Chassis System, not Advanced Chassis System, and A-COLD-WALL*’s own product copy for this collaboration names the Agile Chassis System as the lateral-stability structure. The reissue date needs correcting too. Salomon’s range page puts the return in 2022. A limited world-exclusive colorway did land in December 2021 ahead of a wider 2022 rollout, which is where the 2021 figure came from. The designer behind the 2005 GCS was Christian Tresser, who also designed the Nike Air Max 97. Salomon quotes him saying the metal eyelets came from the shape of a motorcycle gas tank. The lineage underneath all of it is adventure racing, the XA Raid Race in 2001 and the XA Pro in 2002, built for sponsored racers before Salomon widened the platform out.

Both pairs carry knit underlays and suede overlays, a rubber-spray midsole finish that reads pre-worn, and an elongated woven label reinterpreting Salomon’s race flag. The names are messier than any single post has reported, because two official naming systems are running at once. A-COLD-WALL* sells the first pair as Iron Ore under style code LD0178800, while Salomon lists the same shoe as Black Olive, Bog and Icicle. The second pair is House Blue at A-COLD-WALL* and Bluing, Earth Brown and Black Olive at Salomon, under style code LD0178900, a code this post did not previously carry at all. Neither brand describes the yellow accents or the grey underlay that circulated in June preview coverage. JustFreshKicks describes a silver mesh underlay with yellow accent details, which contradicts the grey underlay reported elsewhere, and no brand page confirms either version. Both details are unconfirmed and are left that way here rather than repeated as fact.

Samuel Ross founded A-COLD-WALL* in 2015, after starting as Virgil Abloh’s first design assistant in the summer of 2012. That work ran through Pyrex Vision and Kanye West’s Donda rather than Off-White, which did not exist until 2013. His first Nike shoe was a NikeLab Air Force 1 High, released October 21, 2017 at a London pop-up at 250 pounds. This post previously called it an Air Force 1 with no qualifier, which matters because the Low did not arrive until a year later. Nike’s own newsroom, writing about the 2018 Zoom Vomero +5 capsule, calls the AF1 High his first Nike project. That capsule is worth remembering for a separate reason. Ross built a collection around the Vomero 5 in November 2018, roughly six years before the model became a mainstream hit. The Converse run went from September 2020 to at least the Weapon Ox in March 2024, and neither brand has announced that it ended, so this post no longer says it did.

Pricing was listed as unannounced when this post first went up. It is public now. A-COLD-WALL* sells both pairs at 200 pounds and Salomon Australia lists AU$360. No first-party US price could be confirmed, because the Salomon US product page has been delisted since release. WWD reported 220 euros while Foot District’s regular price was 200 euros, and StockX carries a $220 figure, so the dollar number is reported rather than confirmed. Against all of that, StockX shows a last sale of $295 on the Iron Ore pair and a three-month average of $258, while END. has the same shoe at 159 pounds.

The A-COLD-WALL* x Salomon ACS Pro released July 1 in two colorways, Iron Ore under LD0178800 and House Blue under LD0178900, at 200 pounds a pair. Both went out through A-COLD-WALL* and Salomon directly, with END. and Foot District carrying pairs. Sizes are still live at END. at the marked-down price. The ACS Pro hub and the Salomon archive track the rest of the platform, including the Kith XT-EVO.

Source: Justfreshkicks

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