Kenny Anderson Makes It Look Easy

The Chocolate Skateboards and Converse Cons collaboration is one of those things that didn’t need much announcement—both labels have been orbiting the same concrete universe for long enough that it was only a matter of time. What they did was put Kenny Anderson in the clothes and send him down the street, which is the correct way to launch anything like this: no staging, just someone who actually skates wearing the actual product.

Three sneaker styles: a One Star and two Chuck Taylor All Star Hi-Tops, all sitting in the visual space where skateboarding and streetwear have always met—functional enough to take a beating, understated enough to wear everywhere else. The apparel run is small but well-considered: a T-shirt, a longsleeve, and a nylon windbreaker that makes sense in the specific transitional light of early autumn, when you’re still at the park but you’ve accepted that the days are getting shorter.

I’ve always been drawn to collabs where you can’t tell who pulled whom in which direction. This one doesn’t feel like a brand exercise. It feels like two entities with a shared sensibility making the thing they would’ve made anyway—just with both names on the label.