The Broken Arm and Salomon Introduce the Savát, a New Minimalist Silhouette

Salomon and The Broken Arm released the Savát on June 16, 2026, in two colorways at $170, and three months later both of them still have pairs at retail. For a partnership ten years deep, attached to a brand whose footwear business is growing at close to 40 percent a year, that is an odd result. It is also the most useful thing anyone can tell you about this shoe, and it is not the story the launch coverage told.

Salomon began in the French Alps as an outdoor equipment maker and came to footwear from there, which is why the design language reads the way it does. Deep lugs, protective uppers, sole units built for ground that shifts underfoot. Sneaker culture adopted the brand rather than the other way around, and the numbers have followed the adoption. Amer Sports reported its Outdoor Performance segment, the one that carries Salomon footwear, at $569 million in the second quarter of 2026, up 37 percent year over year, with direct-to-consumer up 52 percent and roughly 315 Salomon doors open in Greater China against a stated target of 400 to 500. Salomon is not a niche technical brand being discovered anymore. It is a scale business, which means the collaborations now have to do something the mainline cannot.

That is what made the Savát worth the attention it got, and it is also where the launch coverage overreached. Nearly every write-up, this post included, called the Savát a completely original shoe built from the ground up. The brands’ own copy does not say that. Salomon’s product listing describes an outsole modeled from the S/LAB Cross 2. The collaboration landing page on salomon.com and both product pages on the-broken-arm.com instead describe an URARA sole under a redesigned upper. Two brand-owned descriptions, two different answers, and neither one calls the sole new. The accurate version is that the upper is original and the sole unit is not.

What is not in dispute is the build. The upper is cut from split suede in a single piece with a tongueless lacing construction, and the outsole is Mud Contagrip with deep, sharp lugs meant for loose and uneven ground. Salomon’s own copy calls the stitching artisanal embroidery that reads as practical patchwork, and points to a speckled outsole whose coloring lands differently on every pair. Two details that circulated widely at launch, a rubberized toe cap and contrasting embroidery running the sidewall, appear on no Salomon or Broken Arm spec page. The colorway names need correcting too. The pair most outlets listed as Dark Olive is officially Black Olive / Niagara / Lava Falls, style code L45444100, and the other is Cosmic Sky / Peat / Acid Lime, L45444000.

The Broken Arm earned the latitude this shoe represents. The store opened at 12 Rue Perrée in the 3rd arrondissement in 2013, not 2012 as this post and several profiles have had it, and its first Salomon project was the Snowcross in September 2015. The relationship has run more or less annually since, through the S/LAB XT-4, the Techamphibian, the X-DESALPES and the X Pastoral, which is the closest thing in the catalog to a thematic ancestor for the Savát. The store was also one of five Paris doors stocking Virgil Abloh’s The Ten at the November 9, 2017 global launch, alongside colette, Shinzo, Starcow and Sneakersnstuff. That is a more accurate description than being among the first stops anywhere.

At $170 the Savát undercuts what a Salomon collaboration usually commands, and the number is the same in dollars and euros rather than a conversion. The market response has split by geography. Salomon Australia is sold out at A$280. The Broken Arm still lists most US sizes in both colorways, and Salomon’s US site is down to a few pairs in one and out of stock in the other. More telling, there is no meaningful resale market. No StockX or GOAT listing surfaced under either style code, while every previous Broken Arm Salomon model, the XT-4, the X-DESALPES, the RX-Travel 6.0 and the XA-Alpine Mid, has a live secondary page. A collaboration that clears at full price with no flip market attached is what a shoe looks like when the people buying it intend to wear it.

The Salomon Savát released June 16, 2026 in Black Olive / Niagara / Lava Falls (L45444100) and Cosmic Sky / Peat / Acid Lime (L45444000), both at $170. Pairs remain available at The Broken Arm and on Salomon. More from the brand sits in the Salomon archive and the Savát hub, and everything the Paris store has touched is filed under The Broken Arm.

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