Vittoria Ceretti incorporated skate culture into her Milan Fashion Week wardrobe on Friday, wearing Vans ’ checkerboard slip-ons while passing through the airport. The $60 canvas sneaker is detailed with elastic side panels and a vulcanized rubber sole, its black-and-white checker motif among the brand’s most enduring signatures since debuting in 1977.

The choice of Vans situates her look within the current resurgence of skate-influenced footwear. Vulcanized sneakers , once defined by West Coast subcultures, have increasingly been reinterpreted on luxury runways. Prada’s spring 2026 collection included canvas lace-ups that closely resembled Vans’ Authentic. At Dior, Jonathan Anderson’s first menswear outing included lace-up sneakers cut with the low, squared proportions of Vans’ Era

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