Vans Sneakers: Everything You Need To Know | Highsnobiety

Vans launches Vault by Vans, a line that adds premium elements to classic models.

VF Corporation buys the Vans brand for $396 million.

Vans collaborates with fashion designer Marc Jacobs, releasing two Slip-Ons and a Sk8-Hi, and drops a heavyweight four-way Slip-On collaboration with Raf Simons, COMME des GARÇONS, and Parisian concept store colette. Other prominent fashion collabs include Kenzo in 2012 and Karl Lagerfeld in 2017.

To mark the release of The Simpsons Movie, Vans works with 12 different artists to release 14 different shoes celebrating Springfield’s favorite family. The artists on the project include KAWS, Futura, David Flores, Geoff McFetridge, Stash, and Taka Hayashi.

Vans collaborates with Disney on a Mickey Mouse Sk8-Hi and Slip-On. The two brands collaborate again in 2013, 2015 and 2018, but the true grail is an early ’80s collab whose prints were reissued in the 2013 drop.