Having already worked his creative magic on the iconic Sk8-Hi, Slip-On and Old Skool silhouettes, Gosha Rubchinskiy now turns his attention to perhaps the most staple silhouette of the Vans archive - the Authentic.
Through previous work, it's clear that skateboarding has played a huge role in developing Gosha Rubchinskiy as an artist and provides a lot of inspiration for his work, eventually leading him to release 'YOUTH HOTEL', a photography book that focused on skateboarding and various other facets of youth culture in Russia . The Authentic has its name etched in to the skateboarding history books as one of the first shoes adopted by skaters in California back in the early 70's. The young Russian artist has reworked the simplistic Authentic with four new colour schemes of black, white, sky blue and tea rose, all of which feature black lacing and a contrasting black sole unit with white piping. Each style is completed with Gosha Rubchinskiy's Cyrillic text logo emblazoned across the heel.
The Gosha Rubchinskiy x Vans Authentic were available at Dover Street Market towards the end of last week but sold through extremely quickly. Luckily you will have a second chance to pick up a pair with Goodhood as they go on sale in-store and online at 11am on Friday the 22nd of January.
