Korea has been more challenged. But we’re in a better place. I mean, today with Vans in the region and particularly in China than we were, six months ago. Martino, anything you want to say about, what’s happening on the ground there with the team?
Martino Scabbia Guerrini: Yes, thanks Matt. Hello, Brooke. I think first of all we see China in a positive, right? So Q1 was up in, in the high single digit for Vans in China, which is good news. And I think when I was there a couple of weeks ago, what I started to see is really a China reopens a very strong engagement from consumers in stores beyond online. And don’t forget that we’re still under penetrated in China. We target a growth consumer demographic there. So with a growing emerging middle class, and that’s a big opportunity. And at the same time, as we go back in store and launch a new product, we also drive local for local product and storytelling. So the assets will also benefit from a stronger, for Vans in particular from a stronger local execution.
And the recent topic design center that we invested in and created in Tokyo, actually to design and influence across China and Asia, is going to drop new products also for Vans specifically in the second half of this year. So overall the sentiment in China is turning positive as the country reopens and Vans is part of that. And Kevin, maybe you want to add something from the specific brand side.
Kevin Bailey: Yes, I can just add on China, Brooke, and then I can talk specifically to classics that you asked about. I think Martino hit a lot of it. Localization is really key. China being our newest market, we have to really build classics as an under for the consumer understanding of the brand. However, they have very specific ask, and as Martino said, we’re leaning into localization to bring what they want from our product to the market. I’d also say they recovered really quick from COVID on inventories with our partner stores, and that really has given us the opportunity to start moving faster, as Martino said, achieve the kind of growth we’re seeing in China due D2C. And the last thing I’d really say there is really about skate, skateboarding has taken on a real life in China as that started to grow, and the team ran a really strong go skateboarding day and we’re really leading there, and we stood up a skate school with one of the big digital players.
So the team, there’s doing a lot. Canvas is still not on trend from the search trends, but we’re feeling good about where China is and how it’s growing. We see a lot more opportunity when I, to get to your question on Americas and stabilization on Classics. I think I said it in Investor Day, we became over reliant on classics and particularly on really just a couple styles, and that really was a big piece of our underperformance and that we didn’t have a strong product pipeline behind it. So what you see in these green shoots, albeit small right now, are the opportunities to start pulling franchises beyond classics. So our focus really is to your point on stabilization, is just that stabilize our classics business, brings style iterations to the market around classics, which is where we’re seeing success with our wholesale partners and our consumers who want newness, but build more and more the product propositions around classics that are adjacent but relevant and give us a greater opportunity to diversify our product pipeline to the consumer.
So stabilization of classics is absolutely critical as far as seeing it yet not really yet because of the amount of product that was in the marketplace.
Brooke Roach: Thank you.
Operator: Thank you. Our next questions come from the line of Ike Boruchow with Wells Fargo. Please proceed with your questions.
