The new collaboration between Mongoose, Vans and our Legends features a Mongoose back design and … [+] colors on a classic Vans silhouette.
Ever since it arrived on the scene in 1966 with its original silhouette, Vans has been at the root of skateboarding culture.
It continues to be classic, recently collaborating with Tony Hawk and launching a football team featuring Olympic athletes Lizzie Armanto and Pedro Barros, but it has not forgotten its roots, with Legendary pros Christian Hosoi and Steve Caballero remain in the team.
However, despite this star power, if you go down to your local park and take a look, odds are most young groms are wearing Vans.
Since 1974, Mongoose has done to BMX culture what Vans has to skate. The innovative cast aluminum Motomag wheels changed BMX, which would explode in popularity in the coming years.
Even today, as with Vans, Mongoose offers a stellar line-up including Pat Casey, Kevin Peraza and Mykel Larrin as well as an Olympic bronze medalist. Nikita Ducarroz but it can also be the bike of choice for kids at the skatepark.
On August 12, the two brands, along with our Legends designer, released a collaboration that honors each other’s contributions to sports culture over the years.
Digo has a unique printed and textured shoe that combines the main lines of the Mongoose colorway on the Vans Authentic silhouette.
The graphics of the collection’s 44 DX shoes each represent an important moment in Mongoose history—the 1970s-era orange-and-yellow rainbow on the bike design and numbers, the red-and-blue checkerboard Americana jerseys of the 1980s worn by . the Mongoose BMX racing team, and the early 1990s, represented by the turquoise-and-pink design.
The new collaboration between Mongoose, Vans and our Legends features the Mongoose back design and … [+] color on the classic Vans silhouette.
The three shoe designs retail for $105 USD per pair and are available online from Mongoose.com, OurLegends.co and Vans.com and select Vans retailers worldwide.
The collection also includes two Mongoose T-shirts ($50) and one fleece ($80) that retail for $50 and $80, respectively, whose designs are nods to Mongoose and Vans merchandise and bicycles and shoe designs.
Chad “Shoes” Blawas, our Legends art director, said the designer “wanted to pay homage to these two iconic brands with designs that reflect multiple eras.” It’s a collection aimed not only at BMX and skaters but at life in general.
The new collaboration between Mongoose, Vans and our Legends features the Mongoose back design and … [+] color on the classic Vans silhouette.
In the first quarter of 2022, Amsterdam-based Pon Holdings acquired Dorel Sports, which owns Pacific Cycle, the parent company of Mongoose, along with Schwinn. Since 2004, VFVFC is owned by Vans
Corporation, the parent company of sports partners The North Face and Supreme.
