{"id":98924,"date":"2023-03-21T18:38:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T10:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/?p=98924"},"modified":"2023-03-25T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T07:00:43","slug":"nicole-mclaughlin-brings-her-gardencore-vision-to-the-vans-slip-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/03\/21\/nicole-mclaughlin-brings-her-gardencore-vision-to-the-vans-slip-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole McLaughlin Brings Her Gardencore Vision to the Vans Slip-On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Update 22 Mar 2023] Following yesterday&#8217;s news of the Nicole McLaughlin x Vault by Vans Slip-Ons, a release date, alongside an additional colorway, has been confirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The nm x Vans will come in the original gardencore &#8220;White\/Green&#8221; and a &#8220;Brown\/Grey&#8221; that takes its cues from workwear bucket bags. The shoes will drop on 31 March at Vans and selected retailers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The upcycling artist also shared the rationale behind her design. &#8220;The Vault by Vans NM Gardening Tote is a vision I\u2019ve had for a while\u201d, said McLaughlin. \u201cI\u2019ve always loved the Slip-Ons and the traditional canvas upper. The idea of canvas made me think about vintage gardening bags and it inspired me to make my own version, a functional gardening tote Slip-On.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22009\" src=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20110033\/Update-Line-1024x47.webp\" alt=\"Line\" width=\"1024\" height=\"47\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20110033\/Update-Line-1024x47.webp 1024w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20110033\/Update-Line-300x14.webp 300w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20110033\/Update-Line-768x35.webp 768w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20110033\/Update-Line-282x13.webp 282w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20110033\/Update-Line.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Artistic upcyclist Nicole McLaughlin is at it again\u2014this time, the Colorado-based creative is bringing her gardencore vision to a pair of Vans sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>We once commented that &#8220;to Nicole, everything can become anything&#8221;, in reference to her <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/01\/20\/nicole-mclaughlins-diemme-maggiore-mule-shoe-or-bag-your-choice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shoe-bag hybrid crossover<\/a> with high-end performance footwear brand Diemme. For her next collaboration, Nicole has channeled her utility design aesthetic and eye for the mundane into her first Vans Slip-ons.<\/p>\n<p>Named &#8220;Gardening Tote&#8221;, the nm x Vault by Vans Slip-ons features a natural canvas construction and consists of a series of design details that nods towards a regular &#8220;boat and tote&#8221; bag. Across the toe box are tiny compartments for you to store miniature gardening tools; a strap in a forest green shade is attached to the heel, alluding to the shoulder straps on a regular tote bag.<\/p>\n<p>On the tongue, a Nicole McLaughlin x Vans co-branded label appears, below which the name of the sneaker &#8220;Gardening Tote&#8221; also makes an appearance.<\/p>\n<p>After posting a few teaser images onto her Instagram account with the caption &#8220;nm x vans coming soon&#8221;, the American creative attracted considerable attention online, including an excitable comment from Sean Wotherspoon the man himself proclaiming that she&#8217;s &#8220;k<span class=\"_aacl _aaco _aacu _aacx _aad7 _aade\">illllllllllllllled it&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Vault by Vans, the drop date of this pair of Nicole McLaughlin x Vans Slip-ons will be announced today. Stay tuned for more release details of nm&#8217;s latest foray into the sneakesphere.<\/p>\n<p>In other sneaker-related news, a new colorway of the <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/03\/21\/new-colorway-spotted-for-the-drake-x-nike-nocta-air-terra-humara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drake x Nike NOCTA Air Terra Humara<\/a> has been spotted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/snkrdunk_int\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22285 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy.webp\" alt=\"Magazine-Bottom-Banner\" width=\"970\" height=\"\u201c300\u201d\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy.webp 970w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy-300x93.webp 300w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy-768x238.webp 768w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20154621\/Magazine-Bottom-Banner-copy-282x87.webp 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Update 22 Mar 2023] Following yesterday&#8217;s news of the Nicole McLaughlin x Vault by Vans Slip-Ons, a release date, alongside an additional colorway, has been confirmed. The nm x Vans will come in the original gardencore &#8220;White\/Green&#8221; and a &#8220;Brown\/Grey&#8221; that takes its cues from workwear bucket bags. The shoes will drop on 31 March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":99569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brands","category-calendar","category-latest-news","category-releases"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98924"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100462,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98924\/revisions\/100462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}