ABC-Mart drops a leather Vans Authentic Wingtip Brogue at ¥11,000

ABC-Mart has given the Vans Authentic a dressy makeover. The Japanese shoe brand's new Vans Authentic Wingtip Brogue takes the classic skate silhouette and adds brogue details and winged toes, in two leather colorways: black and brown.

The shoes are scheduled to drop in-store at ¥11,000, which is around $68 at current exchange rates. Both colorways use the familiar Authentic shape, but the punched detailing and leather construction push the shoe well beyond its canvas roots.

This is not Vans' first wingtip. The earlier Vans Wingtip Eras debuted in black-and-white "tuxedo" treatments. ABC-Mart's version swaps that two-tone look for luxurious solid black and solid brown leather, which reads closer to a proper dress shoe.

The contrast is the point. Where the Wingtip Era leaned into a high-contrast formal look, the new Authentic Wingtip Brogue stays sober and tonal. One leather, one color, from heel to toe, with the broguing doing the talking.

Vans has released several formal-style shoes lately. Alongside other brogue skate sneakers, the label has put out session-approved loafers, a steady pivot toward skate shoes that could pass in a smarter room.

The timing is good. Dressy sneakers continue to hold strong on the market, and a leather brogue on a skate shoe offers the hybrid many buyers want: the comfort and lacing of a sneaker with the detailing of a wingtip.

ABC-Mart is a Japanese shoe brand, and this release is its own remix of the Authentic rather than a Vans-led global drop. That is why the shoe is tied to its stores and to a yen price.

At $68, the Authentic Wingtip Brogue is in the same budget-friendly lane as the canvas Vans Slip-On featured in our guide to the best white sneakers for men, but it swaps canvas for leather and adds broguing on top.

The material is the upgrade. Our white sneaker guide favors smooth leather with a small logo and a clean cup-sole, and this shoe borrows that thinking: leather uppers on a rubber sole, with the brogue pattern carrying the visual interest.

Brogue detailing on a sneaker is a deliberate styling choice. The perforated wingtip edge, usually found on leather dress shoes, signals formality without changing the cushioning, which is what makes the hybrid work for people who skip laced Oxfords.

What separates this from the Wingtip Era

The previous Wingtip Era was built for contrast. The new drop removes it: black leather or brown leather, with no second color on the upper and no flash beyond the brogue punchwork itself.

That shift matters for how the shoe gets worn. A two-tone wingtip sneaker draws attention; a solid one passes as a dress shoe at arm's length, and works under tailored trousers without becoming the whole outfit.

The price against designer leather sneakers

For buyers, the practical question is whether a $68 leather brogue sneaker holds up. Leather at that price is unlikely to match the Saint Laurent or Common Projects pairs in our white sneakers guide, but it is a dress-adjacent everyday shoe.

Our coverage of style has treated the Vans Slip-On as the canvas budget option and left leather to higher tiers. This shoe blurs that line a little, putting a leather upper at a canvas price.

No global Vans drop date or Western retail price has been given. Anyone outside Japan would be relying on ABC-Mart directly, or waiting to see whether the colorways spread further.