{"product_id":"mm6-maison-margiela-x-salomon-xt-6-black-silver-phantoml49107000","title":"MM6 Maison Margiela × Salomon XT-6 'Black Silver Phantom' (L49107000)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMM6 Maison Margiela × Salomon XT-6 'Black Silver Phantom'\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eMM6 Maison Margiela × Salomon XT-6\u003c\/strong\u003e in \u003cem\u003eBlack Silver Phantom\u003c\/em\u003e is the most conceptually ambitious shoe in this collection — a collaboration between a French haute couture house and a French mountain sports brand that should not work as well as it does. MM6 is the line through which Maison Margiela engages with the everyday: less severe than the main line, more accessible in price, but no less rigorous in its commitment to questioning what clothing and footwear are supposed to be. Salomon is the brand that built the XT-6 for terrain where the wrong choice has consequences. In Black Silver Phantom, they have made something that belongs to neither world entirely and is more interesting for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBlack Silver Phantom\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack, Silver, and Phantom are three different relationships with visibility. Black absorbs light — it is the color of surfaces that refuse to reflect, that take everything in and give nothing back. Silver reflects light — it is the color of surfaces that mirror their environment, that show you the world rather than themselves. Phantom is the color of things that are almost not there: the color of glass, of water, of the space between presence and absence. On the XT-6, these three colors are distributed across the shoe's technical architecture in a way that makes the construction itself the subject of the design. The Sensifit™ overlays that Salomon engineered for grip and stability become, in MM6's hands, a graphic system — a map of the shoe's structure rendered in contrasting materials that make the functional visible. This is Margiela's fundamental method: taking the thing that is usually hidden — the seam, the lining, the construction — and making it the surface. On the XT-6, the thing that is usually hidden is the technical architecture. MM6 makes it the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMM6 Maison Margiela × Salomon — The Collaboration\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaison Margiela was founded in 1988 by Martin Margiela, a designer who spent his career asking what fashion was for and whether it needed to be what it had always been. The house's methods — deconstruction, anonymity, the elevation of the overlooked — have influenced every serious designer who came after. MM6 is the line that brings those methods into contact with the everyday, with the functional, with the things people actually wear. The Salomon collaboration is a natural extension of this: Salomon makes objects that are defined entirely by their function, with no concession to aesthetics that is not also a concession to performance. MM6 takes that functional honesty and asks what it looks like when you look at it directly, without the mediation of lifestyle marketing or gorpcore aesthetics. The answer is Black Silver Phantom: a shoe that is simultaneously more technical and more conceptual than anything either brand makes alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eXT-6 Technical Foundation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe MM6 collaboration is built on the full technical specification of the Salomon XT-6 — the same Contagrip® MA outsole, the same Sensifit™ upper construction, the same Quicklace™ system. The technical foundation is not compromised for the collaboration; it is the collaboration's material. MM6 works with what Salomon has built, not against it — the design intervention is in the surface treatment, the material selection, and the color distribution, not in the underlying architecture. The result is a shoe that performs exactly as the XT-6 performs, while looking like nothing the XT-6 has looked like before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMM6 Maison Margiela × Salomon Collaboration\u003c\/strong\u003e — haute couture deconstruction meets technical trail engineering; the most conceptually rigorous collaboration in the gorpcore canon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBlack Silver Phantom Colorway\u003c\/strong\u003e — three relationships with light: absorbing black, reflecting silver, and near-invisible phantom; Margiela's method of making construction visible applied to Salomon's technical architecture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDeconstructed Surface Treatment\u003c\/strong\u003e — MM6's signature approach: the Sensifit™ overlays become a graphic system that maps the shoe's functional structure in contrasting materials\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContagrip® MA Outsole\u003c\/strong\u003e — full technical trail specification; the functional foundation that MM6's design intervention works with, not against\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSensifit™ Upper\u003c\/strong\u003e — Salomon's precision wrapping construction, reinterpreted through MM6's material and color language\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuicklace™ System\u003c\/strong\u003e — Salomon's trail-developed lacing in its original technical configuration, retained as a functional and aesthetic element of the collaboration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStyle Code: L49107000\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColorway: Black \/ Silver \/ Phantom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollaboration: MM6 Maison Margiela × Salomon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrand: Salomon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLine: XT-6 (MM6 Maison Margiela Collaboration)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCategory: Luxury Collaboration \/ Conceptual Footwear \/ Gorpcore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUpper: Sensifit™ with MM6 material treatment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMidsole: OrthoLite® + EVA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOutsole: Contagrip® MA rubber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLacing: Quicklace™\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable in US sizes 3.5–10.5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSalomon built a shoe for the mountain. 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