If you’ve been riding out this year with us, you already know it’s been… a journey. And if there’s one thing 2025 has made painfully clear, it’s that nothing ever really arrives fully formed. Life is always a work in process. It’s less about the destination, more about the winding, sometimes unnecessary path that gets you there. So you might as well be comfortable while you’re filling those footsteps, figuring out where you’re headed next.

Enter Carhartt WIP x Salomon.

Since 1994, Carhartt WIP has reworked classic Carhartt workwear through a contemporary lens, drawing from American workwear archetypes and the subcultures that reshaped them. Paired with Salomon’s long-standing commitment to performance and technical innovation, this collaboration feels less like a crossover and more like a meeting of minds. Meet the X-ALP Carhartt WIP.

This time around, Carhartt WIP takes one of Salomon’s key silhouettes and reimagines the X-ALP through its own unmistakable DNA. Rugged without feeling heavy, technical without losing personality. Built to move through pretty much any environment, the shoe features grainy leather and suede overlays, finished with Carhartt WIP’s signature camouflage: subtle, functional, very much iykyk. Consider these your companion for stomping through Amsterdam streets, racing to your next endeavour on your fiets, or finally venturing out to touch some grass.

All that aside, f you’re still hunting for a last-minute Christmas gift, or simply doing future-you a favour, the X-ALP Carhartt WIP dropped this morning and is available now via carhartt-wip.com, salomon.com, both brands’ stores, and selected retailers for €200.

Consider this a step in the right direction, just in time for 2026.