Vans Old Skool 36 'Orange Leopard'
Colorway: Leopard/Black · Style code: VN000D56BKA · Release date: February 5, 2025 · Price: $60 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Vans Premium Old Skool 36 'Music Collection - Sepia Brown' (VN000D560E0) · Vans Old Skool 36 'Blue' (VN000D560QY) · Vans Premium Old Skool 'Y2K' (VN000D56458) · Vans Premium Old Skool 36 'Marmalade Orange Gum' (VN000D5652K) · Vans Old Skool 36 'Red' (VN000D569IJ)
Leopard print is normally tan and black, and changing the ground colour is the entire idea here. Orange pushes the pattern out of its natural register and into something closer to a graphic, so the shoe announces itself as a print rather than as an animal reference. Black suede overlays at the toe, the eyestay and the heel contain it, which is the arrangement that keeps a loud upper from erasing the outline of the model.
The 36 designation points at the deeper build of the silhouette, and at $95 this sits near the top of the range for a non-collaborative pair. It released on February 5, 2025. Underneath, the specification is familiar, from the cushioning at the ankle and the doubled toe through to the waffle-patterned rubber the brand has poured for decades. Animal prints come back to this shape every couple of seasons, and the versions that get remembered are usually the ones that changed a variable rather than reprinting the standard.