Vans has always been great about taking their love and devotion for seminal rock bands and integrating it into their brand in a very genuine way (I’m quite partial to the Iron Maiden slip-ons myself). They have now teamed up with Suicidal Tendencies to put out a canvas wallet with all over pattern, contrasting trim, [...]
Yesterday we showed you the HUF x Converse shoe with proceeds going toward the against AIDS. Today we’ll bringing you another HUF collaboration this time with Vans. Available exclusively through HUF stores, the Vans Old Skool by HUF is constructed with a canvas upper and full grain leather heelcub. It also features a siped outsole, [...]
The book that traces the roots of skate shoe culture is finally coming to the skate and sneakerheads of SF and LA. Prepare to see some new shoe designs that’ll be rehashing all the classics from the book! If you’re wondering why Simi Valley is on the to-do list, it’s because they have the best [...]
A rather buttery croc skin Half Cab… But they’re a candle to the sun that is the Proper x Vans Holiday collaboration collection. Hot damn.
Last night MIA Skate Shop, Vans, Vapors, and PS14 teamed up with local hero Joel Meinholz (who’s also interviewed in the next issue of Vapors) to sponsor the Loose Cannons on the Run bike race, and then female arm wrestling. (I have no idea how female arm wrestling came into the picture, but it actually [...]
If Vans can come back from the brink to become a major player (pre-Geoff Rowley, their shoes sucked), and Nike SB is doing Dunks in old Airwalk colorways (black/turquoise/white), what’s stopping Airwalk from coming back? Vans owned the ’70s, but Airwalk was the king of skate shoes in the late ’80s/early ’90s, no question about [...]
My London connect Andy over at Fixed Gear London hit me up with their latest collab bike with Vans. With their fixed collection and partnerships with MASH SF and FGL, Vans is on top of their shit. The bike is dope, black-on-black matte and gloss checkerboard pattern, peep photos of the whole bike and the [...]
Another Clyde Singleton Debacle (Editor’s note: Quince is part Native American, hence the Indian humor.) What’s the difference between a Cleveland Indian and, say, an Indianapolis Indian? Well, Cleveland Indians are a baseball team and the other is a lost Indian, far away from home. Do people ever confuse you with Quincy, M.D.? don’t think [...]
You ain’t seen these yet… More to come in the next issue of Vapors. [Sorry, Vans and Active both asked me to take down the photo of these exclusives, saying I was blowing up their spot--which was never my intent. You'll have to wait till the October issue of Vapors drops to see both of [...]
Josh & Brandon Brubaker, Supra and Converse A Clyde Singleton Production In this century, there’ve been plenty of famous brothers. The Wright Brothers. Blues Brothers. Jackson 5. Da Bee Gees. And I ain’t ’een gone count them Jonas dudes in, due to their dangerously low levels of swag. But y’all know where I’m goin’. Anyhow, [...]
