Vans Vault is reaching into the archive of vintage Vans designs, this time with one of the more obscure prints that were introduced to most of us Vans collectors when Ludwig Van teamed up with Vault in 2011 to create a very limited run of Era 46 LX’s, wrapped in various vintage Vans canvas prints that they discovered while hunting down vintage goods. They created only 5 pairs in the original version of this marijuana leaf design, which was officially named the “Mary Jane” print, due to only finding a few small pieces of the fabric. Since then, we’ve always placed this particular shoe up on a pedestal, and one of our OG collectors, Thane Rice, received a pair directly from Mike Dytri, owner of Ludwig Van, which side-note and fun fact, Mike hand delivered to my house, for me to ship to Thane, just to make sure everything was legit. Talk about me being salty, lol! They were one, very very rare, and two, they were in my size 12! The only pair made in that size.
Anyways, the print is back, and better than ever! This time showing up on a trio of OG Authentic LX’s. Available in 3 color variants, Leaf Green, Skunk, and Blue Dream, and we all know which one is going to be the hardest to get. They’re unofficially (or maybe officially) releasing on April 20th, for obvious reasons, so keep an eye out from your local Vault dealer.
Vans history alert!!! Check out the pics and blog write-up I obviously had to do, before sending them off to their new owner HERE. If you want to see more about the Ludwig Van collection, including their release party at Conveyor in Santa Monica, click on those links from the blog posts we made back in 2011, 10 years ago to be exact. Geez.
Shout-out to Sole Classics for the pics I borrowed. It appears they’ve already put their pairs up for sale, and the Leaf Greens are Sold Out. Keep hunting!
more pics after the jump
