Our Legacy has always cared less about trends and more about fabrics. The Scandinavian clothing label has built its reputation on an obsessive approach to materials, whether that’s deadstock tailoring cloth, overdyed denim, or recycled knits. Work Shop, its experimental offshoot, takes that thinking even further. It’s a laboratory of sorts, where upcycling, reworking and collaboration are the order of the day, and where some of the brand’s most interesting ideas have been tested.
That’s where Converse comes in. The sneaker giant has partnered with Work Shop before, most memorably in 2023 with Stüssy in the mix, but this is the first time the two are going it alone. The result is a two-shoe collection that treats the Chuck 70 with the reverence of a vintage sports car rebuild. It’s not about rewriting the silhouette, but rather about digging into its DNA and finding beauty in the imperfections.
Work Shop x Converse: Refining an icon
The first pair is cut from organic cotton canvas, left in its natural state. The second comes in a deep espresso brown. Both are peppered with throwback details that hark back to Converse’s golden years: hand-pulled foxing tape, slightly irregular toe bumpers, and a shorter toe cap. It’s a deliberate nod to the wobbly charm of old pairs from the 1960s and 1980s, when no two sneakers were quite alike.
The branding, too, is tweaked. Inside, the Chuck Taylor patch hides from view. Outside, Work Shop’s yin-yang mark is embroidered on the ankle, subtle but pointed. As co-founder Jockum Hallin puts it to GQ, the aim was to create “the final boss of Chuck 70s” – a familiar classic, reimagined through the quietly obsessive lens of Our Legacy. Which, in a way, is exactly what Work Shop is all about.
The Our Legacy Work Shop x Converse collection drops September 12 via converse.com, ourlegacy.com and a handful of select retailers.
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