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Brand: NOAH x Vans

Model: Caballero VLT LX, Authentic One Piece VLT LX

Season: Fall/Winter 2021

Price: $98, $88, respectively

Release Date: September 16

Buy: NOAH's website and New York flagship

Editor's Notes: NOAH knows best. The New York-based brand doesn't try too hard for its collaborative drops, preferring simple stuff that speaks for itself in a way that mirrors its own seasonal collections. That's why NOAH's FW21 Vans collaboration opts for approachable earth-toned revisions rather than outré nuttiness.

Recent Vans collections and collabs have delved deep into the mouth of madness, and there's nothing wrong with that. But NOAH is taking a step back for its exclusive Caballero VLT LX and Authentic One Piece VLT LX shoes, incorporating subtle, sturdy materials and hushed branding to great effect.

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Two of the former and three of the latter silhouettes are on hand, all rendered in wheat, beige, brown, and spruce green-toned suede. A debossed NOAH cross logo graces the rear of each silhouette, an appropriately understated accent.

These shoes are all very much skate-ready but they're also as dressy as NOAH's refined apparel, with unfussed shapes that retain the versatility core to Vans' classic make-ups. They recall last year's Vans collab (crazy patterns aside), though the elegant, sepia-toned photographs flatter these sneakers even further, really emphasizing the refined shapes and quality fabrication.

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