It is a simple shoe, really. A canvas slip-on sneaker with a vulcanized basket-weave sole. It has no laces, no grommets, no fancy air pumps, heart monitors or iPod jacks. But it is the blank canvas ...

Vans is giving their iconic checkerboard print a bit of psychedelic flair. From band collabs to The Nightmare Before Christmas to Harry Potter, the sneaker company has consistently put out epic ...

Vans shoes might have started as skater footwear, but half a century later the iconic brand is a mainstream staple. Classic Vans shoes sit alongside an arsenal of new styles and designs, all instantly ...

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SEARCH THE WORD “checkerboard” on Vans’s web shop and 465 different shoes spool forth. Since the 1970s, when Steve Van Doren (son of Vans founder Paul) noticed kids coloring in their slip-ons to make ...

For Vans' 50th anniversary this year, the skate shoe company will pull from its archive and bring back cherished shoes like its "Checkerboard" styles. The reissues it has planned aren't straight ...

When you think about the 2010s, there’s probably a whole host of things that come to mind. Topshop was in its prime, cracked nail polishes were all the rage and many of us were wearing slip-on Vans.

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James Van Doren, the man who designed the classic Vans shoes that Sean Penn's Jeff Spicoli wore in 1982's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," died Oct. 12, and the news started us thinking about how movie ...