Drummer Brendan Canty has called out the ‘Vans and Fugazi‘ collaboration as “tone deaf”, and the footwear company has issued an apology for misleading the band’s fans.
The footwear brand recently announced a new “Vans and Fugazi” collaboration of trainers, which was a partnership between Vans and a luxury streetwear brand based in Los Angeles – not the post-hardcore band.
At first, it wasn’t clear to some fans that it wasn’t a partnership with the notoriously anti-consumerist group – leading to some being misled into thinking it was a collaboration with the band.
“Imagine thinking you landed a Fugazi collab only to discover it’s a completely different Fugazi,” one person wrote on X/Twitter, while another added: “I got really excited for a second”.
“I knew it was too good to be true since they never released merch to start with,” someone added on Instagram, and another person wrote: “Little too late. This was completely avoidable”.
To address the confusion, Fugazi’s label, Dischord Records – which was co-founded by the band’s own Ian MacKaye – confirmed that they are not working with the footwear company.
