Words via Hypebeast:
“Presented by Vans is the latest installment to the brand’s series titled Pass the Bucket. Chronicling a range of dedicated and inspiring individuals, Vans offers a preview of what is in store for the second season. Celebrating a diverse group of athletes, artists and creatives of all types, the maturing series has already managed to shed light on the heartening stories of many deserving personas within its early stages.”
Words via NiceKicks:
“You’ve heard about Vans and Nice Kicks joining forces at SXSW, but now you get an in-depth look inside the Vulcanized Vinyl Pop-up shop. The store, located in the heart of downtown on 6th Street, gives SXSW shoppers a one-of-a-kind experience by offering the best from Vans and vintage vinyl. Check out the video for a tour of the Vulcanized Vinyl shop. If you’re in town, check out the location information below.”
Nice Kicks x Vans Vulcanized Vinyl Pop-Up Shop
313 ½ E. 6th Street
12PM-12AM
March 9th-March 18th
Words via Hypebeast:
“Teaming up with Mark Hunter, otherwise known by his moniker “The Cobrasnake,” colette and Vans Vault recently hosted the release of its collaboration Era. In the short recap video, Hunter speaks out on the creative progression of the burger-themed Era and how the project transpired. The invite-only event served patrons a dinner of hamburgers amidst the festivities taking place during Fashion Week in Paris at La Maison Mere.”
Director: Thibaut Grevet
Words via RadCollector:
“In the season 2 finale of Jeff Grosso’s Loveletters to Skateboarding, Jeff breaks down curb skating with eight street heavy weights. Enjoy.”
Words via FreshNGood:
“In 2011, Vans OTW and The Blackouts (Ako and Atiba Jefferson) set out to create a free reggae compilation featuring music from VP Record’s vast catalog of artists. VP Records houses the best in reggae and dance hall music and the twin DJ duo spent weeks carefully selecting each artist for this vinyl compilation. Once the tracks were chosen, the Advocates and Vans set out for Jamaica to finalize the project. In Kingston and Trench Town, The Blackouts were able to walk the steps of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh and photographed living reggae legends such as I Wayne, King Jammy and Ding Dong for the album artwork. Although The Blackouts time as OTW Advocates has come and gone, they’ll always be a part of the Vans family.”
Available at:
Fresh Out The Box
Carve
Blends
DQM General
KicksHI
ShoeBiz
OK, don’t beat me up for posting something not directly related to Vans, but in a way this is directly related to Vans. Stacy Peralta, one of the OG Z-Boys, and now famous documentary director, brings to us a new skateboarding documentary about the Bones Brigade of the 80s. The Bones Brigade are the most legendary group of skaters in all skate history, comprised of some of the best vert skaters to ever exist, sponsored by Powell Peralta. Pro skaters like Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Ray Barbee, and others all belonged to this team at one time in their career. Vans recognizes the legends, and most of those names I’ve just mentioned are all sponsored by Vans til today, and have signature shoes as well. I’m a huge documentary fan, and a nostalgia buff, so I can’t wait for this film to hit theatres. Until then, check out this trailer!
Via Vans OTW:
“This January, we kicked off our 2012 season of the Vans OTW Collection (www.vans.com/otw) and celebrated the addition of our two new Advocates, grammy-award winning artist Lupe Fiasco and Garage Works Industries/Made By Monsters owner Chris Kong, at the House of Vans Berlin during Germany’s Fashion Week. The night featured artwork exhibitions by Kong as well as fellow Advocates Eric Elms and Dimitri Coste while Lupe Fiasco and music legend Yasiin Bey (the artist formerly known as Mos Def) shut the night down with live performances for Berlin party goers. Check out our video recap of the night, “Live in Berlin”.
info via OffTheWall.TV
Leave it up to Vans to engineer skateboarding’s very first vulcanized cupsole. A new breakthrough for skating, as every skater wants the board feel that a standard Vans vulcanized sole gives, but they also don’t want to shred their pair in about a week. They also want comfort, and let’s face it, Vans aren’t your grandpa’s fancy walking shoes, and a removable sockliner can only help so much. Vans thought they had that figured out in the 80s, by switching to a cupsole design. While they tackled the wear issues, and comfort, they inherently lost that crucial board feel with their skate shoes. Well, after years of skaters having to just deal with tossing out fairly new pairs of Vans vulcanized shoes, they can proudly say that they’ve come up with a happy medium, and I think this is going to be a great thing. They’ve come up with a new design that combines the new age cupsoles, with a vulcanized outer rubber, that gets attached to the shoe in the same old fashion that Vans has always done it, by baking it. You know what? Just watch the damn video already! It’s pretty entertaining!
info via Offthewall.tv
Words via Offthewall.TV:
“2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the greatest skate shoe of all time, the Vans Half Cab. In celebration of this occasion and skateboarders’ knack for challenging the status quo and making their voices heard, Vans will be dropping one new and exclusive limited edition 20th Anniversary Half Cab colorway every month throughout the course of the year. Beginning in January, Vans and Supreme take us back to where it all started with a limited edition (20 pairs worldwide!) hand-cut and duct-taped Vans Caballero high top. Each pair individually cut, numbered and signed by Cab himself and available exclusively at select Supreme Stores worldwide while supplies last.”
The shoes will be available Saturday January 28, only at Supreme New York, Supreme Los Angeles, Supreme London and Supreme Tokyo Harajuku. 5 pairs per store.
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