Original retail: $70 · Lowest resale ask: $94 on Flight Club (Nov 14, 2026)
Colorway: Black/True White · Style code: VN0A4BV5V8U · Lowest resale ask: $94 · Availability: Available now
Source: GOAT's catalog (original retail) · stores checked Nov 14, 2026, 4:22 PM ET
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Most checkerboard make-ups in this family confine the pattern to the quarter panel and leave the overlays plain. This one does the opposite: the check runs over the toe, the eyestay, the quarter and the heel, so the shoe is pattern first and silhouette second. The leather sidestripe stays solid and becomes the only uninterrupted line on the upper, which is what keeps the whole thing from reading as a single vibrating square.
At $70 it carried a small premium over the plainer versions of the same period, which is typical for an all-over print. Underneath sits the same skate-shoe hardware the model has used for decades: a padded ankle collar, a reinforced toe area, metal eyelets, and a vulcanised rubber sole with the waffle tread. Black and white check is the one graphic in the brand's catalogue that never leaves the range, so an all-over version reads as a maximal take on something already familiar rather than as a seasonal experiment.
Written with AI from brand specs; facts checked against our catalog data on Sep 18, 2026.