Inspired by Vans’ iconic checkerboard print, Opening Ceremony founders reinvent the pattern with abstract snake and leopard patterns across apparel and footwear. Using Vans’ original deck shoe, the Authentic as their canvas, Opening Ceremony have created an all-over repeat pattern that highlights the positive and negative space – finding harmony between the motifs of the snake and leopard across the uppers and sole of each shoe.

This season, the Three Stripes looks to Shanghai based women’s ready-to-wear designer, Angel Chen, as she brings her inimitable take to a number of the brand’s iconic apparel and footwear silhouettes, Inspired by the trailblazing creative’s colourful synthesis of Eastern and Western aesthetics.