Hand-painted Vans with traditional Coast Salish, Pac NW Native American designs by 8THGEN. "Shoes for walking in two worlds" designed to symbolize creator Louie Gong's multicultural journey.
"I'm Nooksack, Squamish, Chinese, French and Scottish, and like a lot of people, I've spent a lifetime traversing traditional race and class boundaries. Even the very first pair of custom shoes I made, which were roughed out with a sharpie, did a much better job of rep'n my complex cultural identity than the checkerboard or skull patters I saw on the shelf."











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