RESLIDES
*Modular Slides for a World in Flux
written AMANDA MORTENSON
RESLIDES arrives from Zurich with clear intent, a lucid system for feet and pace, authored by designer Benno Reichard and released to the public in Spring 2025. The project speaks in clean lines and steady rhythm, offering footwear as an editable experience and style as a living practice.
The brand presents a commons of fashion-conscious people who move through daily life with self-determination, who treat the planet with care and curiosity, and who welcome new ideas for living and consuming in a constant state of flux.
The message lands with clarity; DIVERSE – ADAPTABLE – SELF-DETERMINED. A pair of RESLIDES enters the wardrobe either pre-assembled and ready to walk or delivered as a kit for hands that enjoy process, order, and the small ceremony of building. Each element carries longevity in its brief. Components fit, refit, and return to service with ease, and the design welcomes repeated touch. Uppers and straps drop in regular waves through collaborations with artists, designers, and like-minded brands, turning the slide into a platform for edits, experiments, and mood shifts that follow the body through a day, a week, a season.
(c) pictures by Johanna Saxen
except components layout by Benno Reichard
RESLIDES modular slides
Kit components ready for self-assembly
The formal language orients on Dieter Rams principles and holds a timeless posture. Edges read calm, proportions feel balanced, and the silhouette glides through studio floors, café tiles, summer concrete, quiet corridors, garden paths. The wearer becomes an editor of detail: a textured upper for evening air, a monochrome strap for a stripped-back moment, a pattern that hums through errands and conversation. The system encourages change through choice, and choice arrives through parts that click into place with reassuring precision.
MODULAR – DURABLE – CIRCULAR. RESLIDES runs on update culture. Straps and uppers rotate, repair unfolds with purpose, and retired components loop back to the brand with rewards that close the circle. The promise is simple: material stays in play, style continues, waste loses its spotlight. A slide becomes a toolkit for personal evolution, and every selection writes another line in a growing archive. The act of exchange—one strap for another, one upper for a new texture—feels immediate and grounded, a small action with a steady consequence.
The community sits at the center. RESLIDES gathers people who claim their taste with confidence and craft, who enjoy a design that listens and responds. The brand talks in the first person plural for a reason; the project lives through shared choices, through images and gestures that pass from one pair of hands to another. The visual world surrounding the footwear stays close to real rooms and lived moments. The rhythm continues on Instagram at @reslides.official where fragments and process offer a window into the practice.
For those seeking a clear entrance, explore modular slides at RESLIDES. The site opens the system, the kit, the ready-to-wear path, the collaborations, and the return cycle that keeps materials moving through many lives. A wardrobe gains a living instrument: build, adjust, repeat, document, evolve. Each pair becomes a working notebook, each strap a fresh line, each return a quiet affirmation of care.
(c) pictures by Johanna Saxen
except components layout by Benno Reichard
(c) pictures by Johanna Saxen
except components layout by Benno Reichard
(c) pictures by Johanna Saxen
except components layout by Benno Reichard
Zurich gave the project its first pulse and Spring 2025 the first release, yet the rhythm already escapes time and place, carried forward through the people who wear and rewear, who assemble and disassemble, who send parts back and wait for the next drop, who treat the slide as an ongoing conversation between body and object, surface and ground, past step and next step. RESLIDES is less an item to be owned than a process to be lived, a modular cadence where every exchange of straps and uppers becomes a gesture of care, every return a small ritual in circular design, and every walk a reminder that fashion can remain open, responsive, generous. Update over waste, and movement writes the rest. Enjoy yourself!
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