Vans x Murakami Slip-On LX – Gold Skull (2015): £230 / $300 Not many brands can boast a heritage of sneaker collaborations like Vans so we’re taking a look at the biggest Vans sneaker collaborations throughout the past 40 years and how much it might cost you to cop a pair on the resale market today. Since at least the 1970s, footwear brands have embraced collaborations with the fashion and creative industry’s biggest and on-trend names-a tradition that remains a key strand of the sneaker industry until this day. Limited edition sneakers and branded collaborations are the cornerstones of the resale market and arguably one of the key reasons why sneaker culture has become the mammoth it is today. For some it is simply a passion, an opportunity to add limited edition silhouettes to their growing personal collections For others, Saturday morning means business and is their gateway into a resale market that has been carefully shaped by key sneaker brands including Nike, adidas & Vans over the course of the last 40 years. Every Saturday morning in the UK, the States and now online, queues of trainer aficionados snake the streets outside retailers seeking to cop the weekend’s hottest drops. The passion and commitment of sneakerheads have even spawned a secondary resale market worth an estimated $1.5 billion per year-and that is in the US alone. Is there another product that holds such an influence over its fans like the sneaker? It is one that has borne its own dedicated army of fans, indeed its own culture, and even 40 years after sneaker culture was first born it still continues to climb towards its peak.
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