Valentino Garavani’s collaboration with Vans first made its debut during the house’s Le Méta Théâtre Des Intimités FW25 show, staged in a series of blood-red nightclub toilets. The hotly anticipated collaboration launches today, immortalised in a series of AI-generated campaign images from those same toilets (this time someone’s left the tap on and flooded the place with weird, computerised water).

Transforming the Vans Authentic silhouette from 1966, the American skate brand’s aesthetic is reinvented through Alessandro Michele’s lens. Arriving in six styles featuring cat motifs, red polkadots, checkerboard prints and I <3 Vans stickeers, each classic low-top design features co-branded insoles and a rubber waffle outsole.

The collection is now available to shop on valentino.com.