The idea of high fashion brands joining forces with mainstream brands has been around for quite some time, with the collaboration between H&M and Karl Lagerfeld successfully introducing the concept of high-low fashion partnerships to the fashion community. The result is a far greater reach and exposure to mainstream consumers and a fairly affordable price tag (still slightly expensive, yes, but way much cheaper than buying directly from a high-end boutique, right?).
While we are eagerly looking forward to the launch of the H&M x Erdem collection, another upcoming high-low collab has caught our attention, and that is none other than the news of the ever-popular skateboard brand, Vans, partnering with the legendary fashion designer and icon, Karl Lagerfeld, for a capsule collection.
No official images of the collection have been released yet, but according to WWD, six of Van’s footwear classics will be re-interpreted, fusing Van’s street style aesthetics and Karl Lagerfeld’s Midas touch. A few iconic silhouettes that will be featured in the collection includes Van’s trademark checkerboard shoes which will be “revisited using a cameo motif depicting Lagerfeld’s iconic profile, with boucle fabric and a quilted letter K among other leitmotifs,” as well as the Sk8-Hi laceless platform, and the uniquitous Old Skool models.
Also in the mix are two-toned, black-and-white (of course, it’s Karl we’re talking about here) apparel, which includes a T-shirt that sports an image of Lagerfeld wearing a checkerboard tie, a bomber jacket, and a premium leather backpack also carrying that quilted letter K motif.
The prices are pretty affordable, ranging between $40 and $300. The capsule collection will first be presented at the Bread & Butter trade show in Berlin in early September, and is set to have a worldwide release on 7 September 2017 at select Vans stores, Karl Lagerfeld boutiques, as well as on both karl.com and vans.com.
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