Vans releases first pictures of entire Harry Potter collection
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Your support makes all the difference.After months of teasing its upcoming Harry Potter collaboration with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, Vans has unveiled a look at everything in the highly-anticipated collection.
Hot on the heels of the brand’s most recent David Bowie-inspired collection, Vans has proved that, even eight years after the final film was released, the magic of the Wizarding World is very much still alive.
The collection features trainers named after each of the four houses from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, as well as a range of apparel and accessories.
For the shoes, the signature colours of each Hogwarts house have been reinvented in different Vans styles.
Gryffindor has been represented in the brand’s Sk8-Hi shoe, which boasts red and gold stripes against black suede and also features an embroidered version of the house’s lion crest on the side.
Meanwhile, Hufflepuff has been imagined in a muted Slip-On shoe, with an all-black exterior and its yellow crest stitched across the forefoot along with its namesake.
Ravenclaw has been given a Checkerboard blue and white shoe with matching blue laces and Slytherin has been realised in a swamp green and black trainer with the house’s snake emblem on the tongue.
To round out the footwear offering, the collection also includes a ComfyCush Era themed around the wizarding newspaper, The Daily Prophet, in an all-over newsprint graphic.
A curated selection of men’s and women’s clothing similarly inspired by the four houses of Hogwarts also features in the line-up.
The styles include a Vans’ Old Skool backpack in the Gryffindor colourway, a men’s Torrey jacket in a Deathly Hallows iteration and a four-houses themed hoodie in white.
The women’s apparel assortment features a Deathly Hollows cropped long-sleeve T-shirt, as well as a Dark Arts backpack with wand motion screen print, a Death Eaters reflective print and Harry Potter logo patch.
“Whether goofy foot or regular stance, Gryffindor or Slytherin, the Vans x Harry Potter footwear and apparel collection will appeal to all enthusiasts of Vans and the Wizarding World,” the brand has said in a statement.
The Harry Potter x Vans collection is available to buy from 7 June online and in-store with prices ranging from £12 - £90.
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