
Why Vans (And Vans-Likes) Went Luxury at Fashion Week
Hardly any sneaker out-humbles a Vans skate shoe. Vans’ signature silhouettes are the platonic ideal of price and purpose, made so insanely easy to wear by their utilitarian skate-deck intent that they’ve epitomized the youth-culture uniform in all eras spanning Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Warped Tour, and Pharrell’s tenure at Louis Vuitton. In spite…