OTW by Vans and Undercover unveil floral Slip-On 98 and Sk8-Hi capsule

OTW by Vans and UNDERCOVER released a limited capsule on June 24 built around the Classic Slip-On 98 and Sk8-Hi, with the Slip-On priced at $110 on Vans’ U.S. site and both styles sold through UNDERCOVER’s official site and select UNDERCOVER stores in Japan. The pair lands as a familiar silhouette exercise with a sharper point of view: Jun Takahashi’s label is using Vans’ most recognizable skate shapes as canvases for floral artwork and archive-minded detailing rather than trying to redraw the shoes from scratch.

The strongest argument for the collaboration’s relevance is Emma Bennett. Vans placed her paintings, Whence You Came and Ardour, across the left and right vamps of the OTW by Vans x UNDERCOVER Classic Slip-On 98, turning the shoe into a split-image gallery piece rather than a simple print shoe. UNDERCOVER has already woven Bennett into its Spring/Summer 2026 men’s collection, titled but beautiful for the rebel man, which gives the sneaker a runway-to-retail lineage and keeps the floral story inside the brand’s larger design language instead of treating it as a one-off graphic flourish.

The Sk8-Hi leans harder into UNDERCOVER’s signature code. The upper carries Spider Check throughout, while special collaboration logos land on the heel patch and tongue, and UNDERCOVER branding runs along the foxing tape. In Japan, UNDERCOVER priced the Slip-On at ¥25,987 and the Sk8-Hi at ¥27,720, with both set for release at 10:00 AM JST, a reminder that this drop was treated as a proper product launch, not a casual colorway experiment.

That seriousness is what keeps UNDERCOVER valuable as a partner for Vans. OTW by Vans already traffics in elevated skate design, and UNDERCOVER gives that platform a conceptual edge, drawing from counterculture, pattern, and archival styling without abandoning the utility of the original shoes. The capsule does not reinvent the Slip-On 98 or the Sk8-Hi, but it does make them feel collectible: less souvenir, more designed object, with Bennett’s florals and Spider Check giving each pair a clear identity beyond a standard collab gloss.