Vans and Travis Barker are releasing the Old Skool Dues Paid 2, a white colorway that flips the color blocking of their first collaboration and lands on June 18, 2026. Where the original Dues Paid Old Skool leaned into black with white accents, this second installment reverses that approach entirely, building the shoe around a pre-scuffed white canvas upper with black details throughout. The result is a cleaner base that still carries the same rough-around-the-edges personality as its predecessor.
The design details make the Barker connection clear from every angle. Pre-scuffed white canvas gives the upper an already-worn look straight out of the box. “Dues Paid” runs across the toes in a gothic font, and barbed wire graphics wrap around the soles, tying the aesthetic to the punk and alternative world Barker has spent his career in. Everything about the construction points back to that same ethos the first collaboration introduced last fall.
Vans has been part of skate and alternative culture since the 1970s and 1980s. The brand grew out of Southern California, built on simple, durable silhouettes that skateboarders, BMX riders, and musicians adopted as their own. The Old Skool, introduced in 1977, was one of the earliest skateboarding shoes to feature a side stripe, and it has remained one of the most recognizable silhouettes in the brand’s catalog. Vans also spent years as the presenting sponsor of the Warped Tour, the traveling festival that connected skate culture and punk music across the country, deepening the brand’s ties to exactly the scene this collaboration draws from.
Travis Barker grew up in Fontana, California, inside that same cultural overlap of skateboarding, BMX, and punk. In a statement for this release, he said, “My first pair of shoes was a pair of Vans. Growing up in Fontana, I always connected the brand to skateboarding, BMX, and punk culture. Once I started seeing my idols wearing them too, it really sealed it for me. To me, they were always the coolest shoes.” That background makes the Dues Paid series feel less like a celebrity co-sign and more like a long-standing personal relationship between Barker and the brand finally showing up on a shoe.
The Vans Old Skool Dues Paid 2 in white drops June 18, 2026, through Vans and select retailers including Journeys. If this collaboration has your attention, it is worth exploring more of what Vans has released on the Old Skool and Sk8-Hi alongside other artist and musician collaborations across the brand’s lineup.
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