Cocona Hiraki x Vans Old Skool "Friendship Bracelet"
Style Code: VN000EGYCRM
Vans Premium Old Skool "Cocona" Cream
Made between sessions. The Vans Premium Old Skool "Cocona" in Cream is the shoe that Cocona Hiraki — one of skateboarding's most energetic and creatively restless young stars — built around the hours that exist between skating. The hours of drawing, crafting, making friendship bracelets, and carrying Japanese heritage through the hands rather than just the mind. The result is an Old Skool that wears its maker's personality on every surface the eye can reach — a collaboration that earns the word because it reflects a person, not a brand deal.
The cream corduroy upper sets the canvas for everything that follows — a tactile, warm surface that gives the DIY details something to land on with the same quality that a sketchbook page gives a drawing. Suede overlays structure the silhouette in the panels that the Old Skool's architecture demands, while handmade-feeling embroidery, safety pins, and charms run through the upper with the energy of something assembled in transit — on a plane, in a van, between spots. A removable friendship bracelet attaches to the shoe as both accessory and artifact, referencing Cocona's Japanese heritage in the specific, personal way that her collaboration with Vans has always operated: not through graphics or colorways alone but through objects that carry actual meaning to the person who made them. The higher glossed sidewall and 90s-inspired foxing tape reference the Old Skool's own history — Cocona's shoe knowing where it comes from while looking entirely like where she is. Cocona's own hand-drawn artwork appears on the translucent ice waffle outsole, the artist's work visible every time the shoe lifts from the ground.
The Sola Foam ADC insole provides the Premium comfort foundation beneath the collaboration's highly personal exterior — made with at least 30% biobased materials, a construction choice as considered as every design detail above it. The Vans Premium Old Skool "Cocona" is the shoe that a skateboarder made between skate sessions. It shows, in every stitch and charm and drawn line. Off the wall, and very much herself.