Tyler Kord Asked Vans To Make A Pair Of Chef Shoes. And They Said Yes.
Tyler Kord Asked Vans To Make A Pair Of Chef Shoes. And They Said Yes.
Laura Neilson
Tyler Kord in his No. 7 Vans Classic Slip-Ons, six years after his initial email to Vans North America.
Here's awesome proof that reading fan mail pays off. Vans shoes has one outstanding supporter in chef Tyler Kord — even more so now that the footwear company co-designed a pair of shoes with the owner of Brooklyn restaurants No. 7, No. 7 North and No. 7 Sub. "I've been wearing Vans since high school. My first pair were black slip-ons, and they were always in my rotation of shoes from then on," Kord tells us. "I always dreamed about wearing Vans all the time." So Kord did what any ardent fanatic would do: he found the contact info for one of the brand's higher-ups and sent an impassioned email making his case. Here's an excerpt:
I wear Vans all of the time, both in and out of the kitchen, and often after a hard night of drinking, I sleep with them on. They’re great kitchen shoes because they’re cheap and have no laces, but unfortunately they don’t have non-slip tre
