{"id":544854,"date":"2017-07-07T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=544854"},"modified":"2018-12-30T13:46:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T18:46:24","slug":"vetements-checkerboard-slip-shoe-pose-legal-issue-vans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/vetements-checkerboard-slip-shoe-pose-legal-issue-vans\/","title":{"rendered":"Vetements Checkerboard Slip-On Shoe Could Pose Legal Issue with Vans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this evening, <strong>Vetements<\/strong> previewed an upcoming checkerboard slip-on shoe that is said to be part of their SS18 lineup. Almost immediately speculation surrounded the shoes as to whether or not this was an upcoming project with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/vans\/\">Vans<\/a> as the shoes not only are eerily similar to the classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/vans-slip-on\/\">Vans Slip-On<\/a>, but also sport the trademarked checkerboard pattern across the upper.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\">VETEMENTS SS18<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by VETEMENTS (@vetements_official) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2017-07-06T11:46:39+00:00\">Jul 6, 2017 at 4:46am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We reached out to one of our contacts at Vans where it was confirmed that there was not an official project between Vans and Vetements.<\/p>\n<p>Being that this shoe is not officially a project between the two brands could mean troubles for the fashion label as Vans has repeatedly defended their trademark of the iconic checkerboard pattern in US and foreign courts.<\/p>\n<p>Vans first used the checkerboard pattern on footwear in 1981 and make it an iconic print throughout the decade on a variety of models of their footwear. \u00a0On February 20, 1990 the US Trademark office granted Vans with the trademark for the pattern on footwear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this evening, Vetements previewed an upcoming checkerboard slip-on shoe that is said to be part of their SS18 lineup.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":545085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1225488],"tags":[1225489,1229370],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vetements Checkerboard Slip-On Shoe Could Pose Legal Issue with Vans | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where to buy Vetements Checkerboard Slip-On Shoe Could Pose Legal Issue with Vans shoes. 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