Vans Old Skool Embellished Leather-Trimmed Canvas Sneaker 

Hold onto the foliage as long as you can since before you know it Autumn will be upon us.  Here's an homage to foliage from the camp at Vans.  Their Old Skool Embellished Leather-Trimmed Canvas Sneaker offers up that clean Vans silhouette with colorful nature embroidery on the read heel, vamp and sole.  This is a sneaker to make you smile and captures the life of the season, even if it is almost 2/3 over.  Available now at Mr. Porter.com. 

Vans X Michelin Street Tread Pack

Is this classic meets staple or staple meets classic?  However you regard them, the iconic American skate culture brand Vans has teamed up with Michelin the automotive tire powerhouse on a new pack and a new initiative.  This collaboration promotes the Michelin 'Street Tread Contest' that aims to inform teen drivers about the importance of tire safety.  

In their effort to get teen drivers to drive on safe tires, the 'Street Tread Contest' implores teens to test their tires for proper inflation and treadwear as it's estimated that 40% of teens drive with improper tire pressure.  About 300,000 of the estimated 2.2 million automobile accidents involve teens driving on improperly functioning tires.  Michelin launched their Beyond The Driving Test campaign to make teens and parents more aware of maintaining tire safety.  To sweeten the deal, in enters Vans to get your footwear game involved as they've teamed up with Michelin in offering a Sk8-Hi and an Old-Skool.  The pack features the iconic 'Michelin Man' printed in royal and white check across the vamp with yellow and royal blue accents and an appliquéd Michelin Man at the back heels.

Left to right:  Scott Clark CEO of Michelin USA with the Founding Father of Vans Steve Van Doren,  Jason "Newkon" Ulep graphic designer/artist at Vans with his tee for the collaboration

Now this pack is extremely limited edition so the Beyond The Driving Test campaign is giving teens the opportunity to enter to win a pair of these Vans by showcasing the testing of their tires through the Street Tread Contest at BeyondTheDrivingTest.com/StreetTread.  One hundred winners will be chosen by the Fall and they'll receive their pairs just in time for Back to School.  Who knew that attaining more peace of mind and being more responsible while driving could also leave you looking cool too?  


Vans Mix Pack

Nothing conjures up pop-art memories of the 80s than a cool graphic black and white mix.  Here is Vans' Mix Pack which uses a mix of different sized black and white checkerboards to play up the eye-catching graphics of playing with scale.  Featuring a mix of the durable canvas and leather Vans striping, the Mix pack features the Sk8 Hi, Classic Slip-On  and Old Skool silhouettes for whatever moves the inner-80s child within.  This pack goes wonderfully with exciting bold color or with other black and white prints and patterns.  Available now at KithNYC.com.



Vans Vault X Horween Pack

The Horween Leather Company produces some of the most quality leathers in America.  Now pair them with the American staple that is Vans and you have a winning combination.  The new Vans Vault X Horween pack takes two of Vans' most popular skate silhouettes, the Old Skool Lite LX and Sk8-Hi Reissue Lite LX, and does them up in fun primary colors.  That, together with the durability of Horween's leather, make the pack an instant classic that, thanks to the beautiful aging of the leather, will only look better over time.  The pack is available now at Bodega.

Vans Vault Old Skool Sneaker

On your mark, get set, GO!  The unofficial start of Summer is here.  Let's hope for more sun with less rain,  lazier days where stuff still gets done and of course, fresh footwear to pull our outfits all together.  For example, these Vans Vault Old Skool Sneakers do just that trick.  The jacquard upper features a cool jungle print, white vulcanized rubber sole and streamlined silhouette that make this a great sneaker to rock all day.  Pair this with your shorts, joggers, sweatpants, abbreviated denim and cropped khakis and kick the summer off right!  Available now in both the Old Skool and Sk8- Hi silhouettes at Kith.com.