This week, amid the spring 2027 menswear shows in Paris, designers have had to contend with record-breaking temperatures. Rick Owens moved from his usual early afternoon time to a 10a.m. slot to beat the heat, and the show took place with his favored Palais de Tokyo as the backdrop. More than that, though, the designer revealed a well-timed—and well-ventilated—collaboration with adidas.

This marks the designer’s first clothing collaboration with the sports brand and their first partnership in almost a decade. Owens produced several lines of running and lifestyle shoes—a blend of sleek silhouettes and more avant-garde, techno-futuristic designs—with adidas, from 2013 to 2017. It compounded what is still one of the most impactful, influential luxury and sportswear collabs to this day. Today’s show played out under the blazing sun on a sloping runway over the Palais de Tokyo pool, with fountains bountifully misting the models and guests.

“We are all processing menace, some of us arm, some of us train,” Owens wrote in a letter to attendees, setting up for a show focused on functionality without sacrificing one’s true freak. He shared that he used adidas’s Climacool technology—advanced, breathable fabrics—to create inflated jackets and shorts with interior fans that billowed on the runway.

“When combined with an ice vest, [they] create a personal air conditioning system with the goal of cooling a runner’s torso as much as possible before a race starts,” Owens continued. (This ice vest was originally conceptualized by the sports behemoth to keep soccer players cool during the World Cup, and adidas also developed the Climacool cooling jackets with their in-built fans for Formula 1 drivers just this year.)

What it all looked like on the runway: bulbous and shiny three-stripe track jackets and suits, and slinky sweats with trailing drawstrings paired with architectural, open blazers. Of course, all in black and white. The jogging suits with adidas’s familiar stripe trim were cast in poly-cotton technical jersey, and were Rick Owens-ized in black or fleshy-colored leather, nude girdle fabric, and recycled nylon knits. Through the rest of the collection, militaristic leather epaulets were added to lightweight silk and cotton poplin coats and jackets for a health-goth-meets-army-general vibe, while Owens’s signature, sharp-shouldered tailoring was executed in compact silk crepe. There were also 1920s-style, sheer tank tops cut with rubber and latex, sinewy chaps, and sculptural, Jurassic landscape-traversing boots.

Whether this new-era collaboration will dive back into the Owens x adidas archive, we don’t know yet, but the runway footwear was certainly just as statement-making: there was said boots with the instantly recognizable springblade sole with gathered leather uppers, which is a revamped version of the 2015 collaboration, as well as a pair of super pumped up Adizero Adios Pro Evo.

Many guests held black umbrellas aloft in an attempt to keep themselves shaded. Liverpool rapper EsDeeKid was one of few to stay completely devoted to the R.O. look, wearing a wing-like mask with matching gloves and heavy, woven black and white striped jacket and combat pants to sit front row.

Owens’s notes highlighted his admiration for the sportswear giant’s “ambitious environmental goals” and the need to “start somewhere and aim higher” amid environmental crisis.

Health goths, rejoice: adidas x Rick Owens is here to keep things easy, breezy, freaky.