Last season at New York Fashion Week, designer Sandy Liang called her Fall 2024 collection "an ode to wearing your clothes, to growing up a little without sacrificing what you love." Bow-adorned mini dresses and smart, pleated skirts that still screamed "girlhood aesthetic" were just part of the equation. Another part involved pairs of chunky black sneakers with pink pointe shoe ribbons where the laces would normally go.
Those shoes—a sign of the ballet sneaker trend's foothold in the market—attracted a lot of attention on social media without any confirmation from the designer as to when they'd be sold. (Sample comment: "When are these dropping 👀.") Five months later, the brand's making official what its beribboned front row guessed back in February: Sandy Liang and Salomon collaborated for a second time, on three sneakers made less for running and more for dancing in the street.
