Open the year of outdoor footwear, 2023 "Gorpcore" is still the trend of The Times?

In the year 2022, when various style trends emerge in an endless stream, the "Gorpcore" with outdoor items as the main identification element must occupy the vast majority of the major social media plates, and frequently appear in the daily life of players.

Relying on the outdoor lifestyle, the practicality and functionality emphasized by Gorpcore meet people's commuting and daily needs to a great extent. With people's interpretation of the trend of Gorpcore style and the continuous intervention of fashion brands, the exquisite outdoor concept carried by Gorpcore in the modeling is also profound.

In 2023, the pursuit of exquisite outdoor fashion and fashion has not slowed down. Gorpcore's trend has blown from major outdoor brands to the fashion season in full swing, and the outdoor shoes that represent Gorpcore style are the only choice and appear many times, while triggering topic discussion. It is also the best proof that the Gorpcore trend continues to prevail.

Since MONCLER released its first outdoor footwear collection last year, the 'TrailGrip GTX', this MONCLER shoe extension is in charge of Air Yeezy 2 designer and former Nike footwear creative director Nathan VanHook. With the release of shoes from the first collection, the 'TrailGrip GTX' has become a choice for trend-seekers to wear with Gorpcore style.

Just recently, Salehe Bembury, the shoe designer who created Crocs' breakout "fingerprint Crocs", was spotted wearing a shoe with MONCLER TrailGrip GTX while attending a Crocs pop-up event in Paris.

This pair of TrailGrip GTX, co-designed with Salehe Bembury, although not officially announced by both sides, but in the "explosive maker" and MONCLER double support, has already hooked the appetite of players.

In the shoe details released by Salehe Bembury earlier, you can see that the whole continues Salehe Bembury's consistent design language: The iconic "fingerprint" element still exists, and the bold color contrast treatment, irregular regional lines on the upper and the combination of different materials also make this shoe defined as outdoor quite bright.

HOKA One One, the popular brand with Tor Ultra Hi & Low shoes, has realized the exploration and transformation from professional outdoor and sports fields to fashion trends in the past two years, and through cross-border co-branding with different brands, HOKA One One's voice in the players is increasing.

Recently, HOKA One One has collaborated with the new British designer brand J.L-A.L_ to bring two high-top and low-top shoes based on the classic mountaineering shoe Tor Ultra. The most intuitive joint feature of the two Tor Ultra models is the color scheme inspired by sand dunes and auroras, which cleverly displays the natural aesthetics admired by both J.L-A.L_ and HOKA One One.

As a topical brand in recent times, J.L-A.L. 's distinctive industrial experimental style coincides with the functional design language and the practical and functional attributes emphasized in HOKA One One outdoor gene. Based on the styles of both sides, the joint name once again demonstrates the delicate relationship between industry and nature.

The popularity of 'Gorpcore' and outdoor elements is also inseparable from the promotion of traditional fashion brands, when the outdoor products representing mountain streams and streams are brought into the show and onto the runway after fashion interpretation, which itself gives players a fresh sense of viewers.

As a representative brand of mountain style, Salomon's outdoor shoes have been popular on social media in the past two years and continue to be active in the eyes of fashion players with their unique appearance design, the pursuit of functionality and wearing experience, as well as the plasticity and universality of wear.

What adds to the topic and heat for Salomon is the cross-border cooperation with traditional fashion brands and designer brands. Among them, the cooperation series with MM6 Maison Margiela, starting from the Autumn and winter 2022 series, has aroused public attention and discussion after its debut at the MM6 show. Salomon x MM6 Cross Low&High has become a fashion item that players are eager to pursue.

Coming to MM6 spring/Summer 2023, the second collaboration with Salomon appeared on the Milan show, which was also a bright sight. On the basis of Salomon classic outdoor shoes, the use of ultra-long over-the-knee socks design and minimalist color selection;

In addition to the shoes, the fashion design language of MM6 is also applied to the Salomon Adv Skin 5 running vest, which combines the fashion atmosphere with the outdoor style of the mountain, and is bound to cause a wave of talk when it is released.

Recently, the active trend account @le.syndrome on Instagram released several photos of the Salomon 2023 Fall/winter collection, of which the joint new product with MM6 naturally became the biggest point of view.

Although the cooperation series continues the Salomon Cross shoe shape, it can be seen that the pantyhose part of the upper of the MM6 has been lengthened in the design, and it has become a more fashionable high tube shape, and the iconic brand digital LOGO of MM6 has been added to the high tube, making its joint name more recognizable.

And the most surprising, when the MM6 reshapes the Salomon product line of extremely hot ACS Pro shoes, patent leather shiny material gloss embellish and a variety of colors, greatly enriching the player's choice in the shape. In addition to shoes, there is also an outdoor backpack in this cooperation series, which echoes the color of the shoes, and also improves the integrity of the shape, giving outdoor and trend players more choices.

In the Salomon 2023 autumn/winter new products exposed by @le.syndrome, the cooperation series with the Spanish pioneer brand 11 by BBS also attracted attention.

Since 2017, Salomon has had a long-term relationship with 11 by BBS, and over the course of six years, 11 by BBS has created a series of highly recognizable shoes for Salomon, which has become an important part of Salomon's diversified style exploration in the fashion field. This autumn/Winter 2023 collection, 11 by BBS once again presents the iconic dyeing and aging process on the shoes, infusing fashion blood into the outdoor gene of Salomon and bringing a unique style presentation.

Before Salomon's fall/winter collaboration with 11 by BBS was revealed, the two sides officially announced a new collaboration project at the end of January - Athletic Bouldering capsule series.

Based on the traditional outdoor sport of "bouldering" as inspiration, the design concept based on pragmatism and function runs through the whole collection. Based on the color matching of black and gray, the design of the soles is expanded. This pair of new cooperative shoes based on the Salomon XT shoe type can best reflect the consistent dark style and avant-garde design of 11 by BBS; In addition to reinventing the Salomon XT shoes, the two companies also launched the first collaborative ready-to-wear collection and accessories, without exception, functional and practical as the main design language, the outdoor and fashion closely together.

In the past two years, driven by the retro fashion trend, the sports brand Oakley with a 48-year history has emerged in the sight of the trend players, and many brand items frequently appear in the players' wearing styles.

The Paris Fashion Week in full swing recently kicked off, at the end of the Junya Watanabe 2023 autumn/Winter show, many of the list of products made the audience dizzying, of which Oakley's classic Flesh shoes appeared on the runway can be described as a surprise, This cooperation between Junya Watanabe and Oakley is also another breakthrough in the field of fashion by the project Team of Oakley Factory Team.

This time, Junya Watanabe and Oakley co-branded shoes choose the Flesh version without LACES, the pure black color shows the level of details through the splice of different materials, and only has the logo of the cooperation between the two sides on the insole, which runs through the minimalist design concept that Junya Watanabe pursues.

In the past month of 2023, a number of brands have taken the lead in outdoor footwear, creating a topic through joint cooperation, and gaining good attention.

With the release of their new collections by orthodox outdoor brands such as ROA Hiking, and Wander, players have once again started to discuss outdoor fashion.

It's hard not to believe that in 2023, the outdoor trend will continue in the field of fashion and trend.

At that time, the outdoor elements will have a unique fashion interpretation and fresh style evolution, which is also worth our expectation.