“it’s time to start wearing vans again… GQ global style director noah johnson’s no-holds-barred view on contemporary menswear, the culture of fashion, and how to get dressed now. this spring and summer the internet’s best trend sleuths claimed vans as this years ‘it’ shoe,” serving up an assortment of hot and vile takes on the matter. i’ve read the posts and they are nothing short of violence. some called vans “nostalgic.” are they casting back to spicoli’s carefree early ’80s? or, like, three years ago when everyone was wearing vans…”