SZA, Vans Artistic Director, marked her Paris Fashion Week debut with a front-row appearance at the Louis Vuitton Menswear Show, wearing the Ladybug Garden, a 1-of-1 custom Vans Authentic created exclusively by emerging NYC-based jewelry designer Rachel Goatley.
Designed specifically for Paris Fashion Week, the custom footwear reframes the front row as a platform for creative visibility. SZA’s look spotlights emerging female craft, using one of fashion’s most public stages to elevate new voices in design.
In addition to the Ladybug Garden Authentic’s worn at the Louis Vuitton Menswear Show, Rachel Goatley designed four additional 1-of-1 embellished Vans pairs for SZA to wear throughout the week in Paris, expanding the collaboration across classic Vans silhouettes, the Authentic and Old Skool. Each pair features custom enamel lace locks, handcrafted in sterling silver, yellow-gold plated, and set with sapphires, topaz, opal, citrine, malachite, and diamonds, introducing material richness and precision craftsmanship to classic Vans forms.
LADYBUG GARDEN (WORN BY SZA AT LV SHOW)
Authentic 44 – White
Gemstones: Yellow and orange citrine, pink sapphire, emerald, peridot
ADDITIONAL DESIGNS INCLUDE (SEE IMAGE FOLDER ABOVE):
ENCHANTED FOREST
Old Skool 36 – Le Marais Forest
Gemstones: Malachite, amethyst, pink sapphire, smoky topaz, opal
RADIANCE
Old Skool 36 – Le Marais Black
Gemstones: Diamond, opal
CAMO / EARTH
Old Skool 36 – Le Marais Bungee Cord
Gemstones: Smoky topaz, chocolate diamonds, emerald, malachite, star sapphire, pearl, quartz, moonstone
TEMPERATURE CTRL
Authentic 44 – Navy
Gemstones: White, yellow, orange, and blue sapphire; yellow citrine; garnet
Goatley is a self-taught jewelry designer and Creative Partner at Greg Yuna New York, where she has spent the past decade designing fine jewelry in close collaboration with Greg Yuna. Her work centers on intimacy, heirloom-level craftsmanship, and a fine-art approach informed by abstraction, studies of shape and color, and close attention to the individual wearer. This collaboration translates that visual language into footwear, creating a singular expression of adornment and identity.
By wearing custom craft from an emerging female designer for her first Paris Fashion Week appearance, SZA underscores her commitment to elevating new creative voices on the global fashion stage.
Later in the week, SZA will continue engaging with Paris through a community signing and product giveaway away from the runway, details to be announced.
About Vans
Vans®, a VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC) brand, is the leading skateboarding and original action sports footwear, apparel, and accessories brand. Vans® authentic collections are sold in more than 100 countries through a network of subsidiaries, distributors, and international offices. Vans® has more than 2,000 retail locations globally including owned, concession and partnership doors. The Vans® brand inspires and empowers everyone to live “Off the Wall” embodying the youthful spirit of freedom, non-conformity, and relentless drive to push culture across action sports, music, art and design.
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