Vans Skateboarding Celebrated Curren Caples' Shoe Launch with a 48-Hour Bash in Palm Springs

It's not every day a skateboarder is bestowed with their own signature shoe, much less their first signature shoe. So when Vans announced that team member Curren Caples would be getting his own shoe -- a model aptly named The Curren -- the brand pulled out all the stops to ensure that the launch would be a memorable one. That entailed bringing a lion's share of the Vans Skateboarding team down to Palm Springs for two days of skating, surfing and shenanigans, all in service of the launch. "Design...