FCTRY LAB LAUNCHES ALLSKNS WITH A SLIDE YOU REBUILD

ALLSKNS, the first standalone brand out of FCTRY LAb, launched on November 5, 2026 with the Allday Slide, a recovery slide with swappable uppers and footbeds that its makers call a first of its kind. The swappable pieces are called SKNS, and the brand says they give an athlete four looks in one pair. Co creator Timothy Nickloff announced it with Omar Bailey after what he called a year in the making, and said the aim is "to celebrate youth sports and give young athletes another way to express themselves."

The Slide Is the Platform

The Allday Slide is a recovery slide, the category athletes pull on after a game or practice. What makes it different is the system under the foot. The uppers and the footbeds swap, which turns one pair into several looks and gives the brand a reason to sell the pieces separately later. The system is described as proprietary modular footwear, built for athletes from elementary school through college.

The slide is listed at $75 and opened for pre sale on ALLSKNSALLDAY.com and at select US retailers. A swap system is a smart bet for a youth buyer because kids outgrow shoes faster than they outgrow taste, and a parent paying once for a slide that can change colors is making a different calculation than one paying for a fixed pair.

Omar Bailey Built This Kind of Lab Before

Bailey is a veteran footwear developer and the former head of the adidas Yeezy Innovation Lab, a role he held from 2019 to 2022 according to his personal site. FCTRY LAb, the Los Angeles prototyping lab and venture studio he co founded with Abhishek Som, handles prototyping and development for footwear as an independent innovation lab. ALLSKNS is the first brand it has pushed out under its own name.

One profile says Bailey has worked with brands including adidas, Supreme and New Balance. That sequence matters. The lab spent years making product for others, and now it is selling its own. A studio that can prototype a modular slide in house has an advantage over a start up that has to outsource the first sample, and Bailey has said the aim is to build the first BIPOC led sports shoe brand.

A Team Pulled From Five Worlds

Nickloff said the team has expertise across professional and youth sports, youth lifestyle, streetwear and skateboarding, which he framed as a new perspective and energy for the market. His own bio lists more than 20 years of leadership at brands including adidas, Emerica, Palladium and Complex.

The roster maps to the pitch. Professional sports supplies credibility, youth sports supplies the customer, and streetwear and skateboarding supply the idea that a slide can carry a look. The brand thanked a team and investors on launch, and the investors named in the release are Slauson & Co., Level One and Elysian Park Ventures, along with independent backers.

The slide is also a streetwear object. BAPE put out a second wave of its slide in three Solid Camo colorways on August 1, 2026, in XL EXTRALIGHT foam. A category that streetwear brands treat as a colorway canvas is the one ALLSKNS has chosen to rebuild as a system.

Lacrosse, Soccer and the Grassroots Route

At launch ALLSKNS announced official partnerships with USA Lacrosse and the youth soccer club CDA Slammers FC. Both are youth sports bodies, not celebrity endorsements, which follows the brand's stated grassroots approach of meeting athletes where they play.

That is a different route from the one big sportswear brands use for recovery footwear. Nike and Hyperice debuted the Nike Air Zoom Hyperslide, a $249 recovery slide with a removable magnetic pod that heats to 117 degrees, on July 27, 2026. It is an adult product built on a technology. The Allday Slide is priced at less than a third of that and is built on a system for children and teenagers.

What to Watch

The product is priced and the partnerships are signed. The open questions are retail reach and the cost of extra SKNS, which the sources reviewed do not price. A slide system lives or dies on replacement pieces, and the first sign will be whether the swappable parts are sold in packs, in team colors or alongside the slide at launch.