CONVERSE X NOAH LOUIE LOPEZ PRO 2 ARRIVES JULY 30 AT $85

$85. A premium green suede upper, contrast stitching, and perforated Star Chevrons, with the Noah stamp kept small enough that you could miss it walking past. Converse and Noah are calling the Louie Lopez Pro 2 collab the second chapter of a relationship that has only existed publicly since March.

The shoe is not a redesign. It is a signature skate model getting quietly deputized into a specific brand's taste, and that restraint is a bigger tell about where this partnership is headed than a full silhouette rebuild would be.

$85 and a Suede Upper Noah Did Not Reinvent

The Converse x Noah Louie Lopez Pro 2 keeps the base shoe's thin cupsole and CX foam insole built for skating, then swaps in a premium green suede upper with contrast stitching and perforated Star Chevrons along the sides. Noah's branding shows up as a subtle stamp rather than a redesigned logo, and the pair releases July 30 for $85.

The drop lands in Converse's busiest stretch of the year. The brand has run at least six collaboration pushes since June 29 alone, and the Noah colorway is simply the newest entry in that run, timed to a skate edit rather than a press release.

Louie Lopez Signed With Cons in 2014

Louie Lopez joined the Converse Cons team in 2014, a year after turning professional for Flip Skateboards in 2013. His first signature shoe, the Louie Lopez Pro, launched in 2019, and the Pro 2 followed six years later, debuting in a Metallic Silver colorway on March 7, 2025 before expanding into black, egret, and habanero red versions through the rest of that year.

Converse tapped the same silhouette for the Noah collaboration rather than building a third signature shoe from scratch, which says something about how the brand treats Lopez's line. It is stable enough now to carry a guest colorway without needing a new mold. Signature skate shoes rarely reach a second numbered model at all; most riders lose their line before Converse would risk handing it to an outside collaborator, let alone one making its skate footwear debut.

Noah and Converse Started With a Chuck 70 in March

Noah and Converse's first official collaboration was a Chuck 70 patchwork and plaid capsule that hit Noah's stores on March 26, 2026 and the wider Converse webstore the next day. Brendon Babenzien, who founded Noah in 2015 after leaving his post as Supreme's creative director, said the relationship between the two brands "goes back to the very beginning" of Noah itself.

Four months later, that relationship moved from Chuck Taylors into skate product, which is the more credible move. A prep leaning canvas sneaker collab is easy, and Babenzien has done versions of it before at Supreme and again at J Crew Men's, where he served as creative director. Putting your name, however quietly, on a signature skate shoe worn by an active Cons team rider requires the skate community to actually respect the brand doing it, not just the fashion press.

The Video Sells the Shoe Better Than the Shoe Does

Filmmaker Ben Chadourne shot Lopez moving through his home city for the release, skating push after push rather than landing a single trick reel. The footage leans on the same idea Noah has used across its own lookbooks since 2015, that plain motion reads as more authentic than a staged campaign.

It is a similar logic to what put Nike SB back in Detroit for its 2005 Tennis Classic revival, letting a city and a rider carry a shoe story that a studio shoot cannot fake. Skate brands keep learning the same lesson: the edit is the marketing, and the shoe is just what shows up in frame. It also explains why Noah picked a skate part over a product still life to introduce its second Converse push, choosing a real rider on a real route over anything staged.

Buy it if you already own a Louie Lopez Pro 2 and want the version with a name on the box that carries outside skate shops. At $85 for a suede upper this clean, the price to craft math works even before Noah's stamp adds resale interest, and a shoe built on a model that has already survived one full redesign cycle since 2019 is a safer bet than most collab footwear released this quietly.