This week, FP Movement, Free People’s activewear line, released its first-ever footwear collaboration with performance wear powerhouse Asics. The collection includes two shoes, both built around golden hour, the early morning and evening windows many women guard as their own.
The collection includes two shoes, the Gel-Nimbus 28 running shoe and the Gel-Challenger 15 tennis shoe. The Gel-Nimbus 28 has an orange midsole and ombre laces, plus a small FP Movement charm on the lace. The cushioning is unchanged from the standard model, still built with Asics’ FF Blast Plus foam and PureGel technology.
The Gel-Challenger 15, on the other hand, uses FP Movement’s paisley print across the upper while keeping Asics’ Wingwall stability tech, which is designed to support side-to-side movement during tennis.
A go-to for a reason, FP Movement built its following on activewear that reads more stylish boho than basic gear, and its shoe collabs have followed the same instinct, treating performance gear as something worth designing well, not just something to work out in.
The brand has done shoe collabs before, but this one leans harder into performance than most. Asics is a a brand runners and tennis players choose for the tech, not just the aesthetic, so putting FP Movement’s design on it is a test of whether performance and style can share a shoe without one canceling out the other. And rather than pick a single sport, the collection spans both running and tennis in one drop—a smarter bet on how modern women actually train, moving across more than one sport instead of staying in a single lane.
The FP Movement x Asics collection is available now at fpmovement.com, asics.com, and select Dick’s Sporting Goods locations.