Vans, the original action sports and apparel brand, unites with iconic hip-hop collective, A Tribe Called Quest and Sony Music’s innovative merchandising company The Thread Shop, to unveil an exclusive footwear collection that sees a true creative homage come to life. Paying tribute to the style, art, music, and originality of the artist’s immense cultural influence since the early 1990s, Vans celebrates A Tribe Called Quest’s outstanding contributions to music and pop culture with footwear designs that memorialize their iconic album artwork and the vibrant song lyrics forever embraced by the 90s zeitgeist and beyond.
The exclusive collection offers a range of Vans classic silhouettes including the Slip-On, UltraRange, Old Skool, Slip-On, Authentic, Sk8-Hi and Era in boldcolors and prints, illustrating the group’s most favorite milestones of their career. For A Tribe Called Quest fans, the footwear designs speak volumes to the the band’s beloved discography.
A Weekend With Kimmann Brothers! I spent a weekend with one of the FAST bmx brothers in their home in Dedemsvaart Netherlands. Enjoy our ridings and talks.
UCI BMX SX World Cup Saint Quention-en-Yvelines, France by Niek Kimmann.
Easter, BMX and a lot of fun! The KSHZLE Crew hosted a little BMX Street jam in Karlsruhe, Germany on Easter, which was a absolutely great BMX Session with a lot BMX Shredders from Karlsruhe and the surrounding area like Felix Donat, Felix Lange, Dennis Erhardt, Florian Faust, Robin Kachfi, Timothy Jones, Ferdi Bensch, Graziano Lombardo and many more.
We live in an era where social media makes seeing daily BMX videos easy. So we set out to do something that wasn’t just a flash in the pan Instagram clip or quick YouTube video. Something that all the riders really took their time to film.
Riga, Latvia.
RIDERS: Svens Tuklers, Kristiāns Ķiksis, Ernests Šulcs, Truslans, Denis Skrobins and also Vladislavs.
Friends: YoungMK, Ed Zunda.
Moeller, Cam Wood, Def Paul, Beringer, Fathead, Stahl, Joe Simpson, Bevan Cowan and many more dunkin their dawgs!
Footage gathered mainly in the spring summer 2017, put together for the Bud BMX prem.