While the Goliaths rest on their laurels, the up-and-coming brands below are busy making the trail shoes of the future—and they won’t be remotely offended if you rock their kicks anywhere but.

Syntilay has launched AI-designed, 3D-printed shoes. The footwear was designed with a mix of Midjourney and Vizcom AI The $150 shoes use smartphone foot scans for a fully customized fit.

“The shoe is the foundation of the silhouette ... at Balenciaga and will continue to perfect and develop in the future,” Demna explains. “It’s a completely new type of sneaker, almost ...

The company is making a giant leap for shoe-kind. This is the Adidas 3D-printed shoe—the Futurecraft 4D—and we've got all the details. Adidas and Silicon Valley tech company Carbon have ...

Adapt BB is all about a perfect, customised fit. It just happens to achieve that via a self-lacing shoe, like in Back to the Future. The system used is called FitAdapt, and it involves an app ...