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VANS CUSTOMS | ARTIST STACEY ROZICH
LA based artist Stacey Rozich recently created some one-of-a-kind Vans using her signature artwork, style and the Vans Custom Shop. Let’s find out more about what inspired her Vans Customs, what she’d name them and where we might catch her prowling around in them next! Take the leap below.
Photographs courtesy of the artist.
Tell us a little bit about the design you used for your Vans Customs! What was the inspiration behind it?
I have a soft spot for animal prints, especially painting them. I had been trying to find the perfect pair of tiger print shoes for so long, but I couldn’t find any that fit the bill. When I got this opportunity to design some Customs, I knew exactly what I was going to create. Along with hand-painted tiger coloring and stripes, I had to add my signature bizarro absurdity, so I added a ferocious mouth and intense eyeballs. The whole package is, at first glance, a fun pattern for Vans, but the second take reveals the wild face which ups it to the next level.
What would you title your shoe?
“Tiger Snacks”
Do you remember the first pair of Vans you ever owed?
I do! I was 18, and a freshman at CCA studying Illustration. I was at the Crossroads Trading Co in Berkeley, and in the shoe section I found the most perfect worn-in blue low top Vans for like $12. I wore them constantly until they disintegrated. I’ve had a dozen pairs since then.
What have been some of your favorite reactions so far to your customs?
A lot of the reactions have been the same: Excited pointing and “WHOA!” and questions about where I got them.
Where can folks see you wearing them next? What do you have coming up?
I will be in San Francisco for my solo show opening at First Amendment on July 6th! I’m excited to hang out with these tigers in The City and back home in LA.
Find out even more about Stacey in our Sketchy Behaviors Interview with Stacey Rozich!
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Vans Custom Culture is a global shoe customization contest. The Top 10 finalists from each region will advance to create their final custom shoe with guidance from Vans’ design experts. Three global winners will have their custom shoe design produced and distributed by Vans, receive a cash prize, and have the opportunity to select an art charity to receive a donation.
Submissions are open now, and the contest is currently available in all of the countries listed below. We hope to include even more areas in the future. Click on your country to be taken to your contest page. See local website for full terms and conditions.
- Australia
- Canada (French)
- Canada (English)
- China
- France
- Germany
- Hong Kong (Chinese)
- Hong Kong (English)
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Korea
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Vietnam
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Here’s Justin Henry putting his custom perf leather Old Skool Pros to good use in the streets. Create your own signature colorway from our Duracap reinforced Pro Skate styles anytime at vans.com/customs
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Add some color pop to your spring palette when your create your own one-of-a-kind Pro Skate Customs. Choose from 5 Pro Classic styles and endless color & fabric options at vans.com/customs.
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Chase the Monday blues away with your own Pro Custom creations like these Old Skool Pros in Skyway & Black suede. Make your mark on our DURACAP & UltraCush upgraded Pro Skate line in over three dozen color & pattern options anytime at vans.com/customs.
Let your personal style shine with 5 Pro Classic options like @VANS_Europe’s Shani Bru did with these sick Sk8-Hi Pros. Create your own pair of DURACAP upgraded Pro Customs today at vans.com/customs.
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Match your mood when you create your own DURACAP reinforced Pro Customs like our @vansbmx brother Larry Edgar. Start customizing your own pair today at vans.com/customs.
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Dennis Enarson has been loving these canvas Old Skool Pro’s he built up using Vans Customs site. They haven’t left his feet since they arrived a month ago! Get creative building your own unique pair up at vans.com/customs
See a clip of Dennis in the shoes on Instagram
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That hit of flame on the foxing really set these Authentic Pro Vans Customs off.
Built up by Matty Cranmer.
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These Vans Customs are fire! Matthias Dandois went with the Era Pro and hit the vamp and heel counter with magenta. See what you can come up with at vans.com/customs
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Custom Sk8-Hi Pro Vans built up by Gary Young. These are fire!
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Sean Ricany has been on an Authentic Pro kick lately and these Vans Customs were all his idea. Digging the checkerboard quarter hit!
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Larry Edgar built these Sk8-Hi Pro’s online and they were delivered to his door in under 3 weeks.
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Can’t find exactly what you have in mind? Try building up some pro classics at vans.com/customs
Angie Marino hit the side stripe on these Sk8-Hi Pro’s with pink glitter!
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High voltage. Introducing the new lightning bolt foxing graphic, available in the Customs Shop at vans.com/customs
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Make your Customs pop with Prism Pink Suede and Checkerboard in Skyway/True White. Design your own at vans.com/customs
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Design your own Vans Customs with a touch of magic. Exclusive Vans x Harry Potter prints are now available at vans.com/customs
Express yourself with the Customs Exclusive Brushstrokes pattern. Create your own at vans.com/customs
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