OTW by Vans launches a new capsule in collaboration with Julian Klincewicz, artist, filmmaker and musician who draws his to-do list every morning. Not in a designer notebook, not with the intention of making something out of it. Just on any piece of paper, because that’s how his mind works. Eleven years of this ritual have produced a vast visual archive he calls Joyous Chorus. Not a series of works, but a state of mind.

That universe has been transferred onto two archive silhouettes, the Old Skool 36 and the Style 31, alongside an apparel line ranging from fleece to jacquard socks. The result is a collection that doesn’t look like a collaboration — it looks like someone carrying their own studio with them.

There’s something countercultural about this vision. At a time when sneakers are kept boxed and resold at gallery prices, Klincewicz designs objects with their end in mind — the scrapes from the skatepark, the puddles walked through, the ballpoint pen dragged along the edge. The perfect product, for him, is the one that carries the marks of whoever wore it.

Southern California, skate, the circus, the colors of summer in San Diego when he was seven years old — all of this lives inside the collection, not as nostalgic reference but as living material. Ivy Green, Mango Mojito Orange, Ink — even the colorway names seem to come from that world, warm and messy in exactly the right way.