Thongs & Bean Bags: Supreme Reunites With Famed Photographer Larry Clark For Collab & Subtle ‘Kids’ Nod
We know Supreme just dropped its Fall/Winter collection, but hopefully you’ve saved some coin.
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We know Supreme just dropped its Fall/Winter collection, but hopefully you’ve saved some coin. The skate brand circled back for a new offering with old friend and frequent collaborator Larry Clark.
The Oklahoma-born creative is best known for spending nearly ten years in his hometown of Tulsa throughout the 60s, capturing its stark reality through photos.
It led him to publish the lauded documentary photography book Tulsa in 1971, which Supreme says, “is considered one of the most influential and important collections of American photography — both for its exposure of the quotidian violence and self-destruction in everyday American society, and for the seismic impact it made on generations of American photographers who went on to make autobiographical pictures of their own lives and communities on the fringes.”
With praise like that, it’s only right Supreme take some of the most iconic photos from Tulsa and put them on some Supreme-branded goods. They include a long-sleeve top, T-shirts, hooded varsity jackets, and a hoodie.
One of the vintage photos prominently showcased is one of a shirtless man in jeans sitting on a bed while clutching a gun pointed to the sky. The OG photo is amended a bit to show a cartoonish boom coming out of the gun’s barrel that reads “With love, Supreme.”
Another gun-toting photo from the Tulsa collection shows a man leaning over the back of a chair, squinting as he points the firearm out of frame.
Those pictures are stitched on hoodies and the blue-and-yellow-accented varsity jacket, printed on the front of T-shirts, and sequined on long-sleeve raglans.
The collection’s lone hoodie is a full-circle moment on its own, because in the lookbook it’s worn by Leo Fitzpatrick, who played Telly in Clark’s cult-classic, grimy ’90s NYC film Kids.
Another Clark original features a tatted-up woman, model Gabbriette, on a bed wearing a bra and Supreme-branded panties looking back at the camera. Lying next to her is a Supreme deck.
The photo of the woman on the bed, and the other of the man on the bed, get Supreme’s T-shirt treatment by offering them in several colorways, from the more typical black and white to the more colorful orange, green, blue, and red. The backs read “Love thy Neighbor” and “Jesus Wept.”
The woman also gets featured on a few skate decks, including one of her toplessly hugging a deck, and she fronts the 48-page zine. As for off-the-wall accessories, Supreme keeps it tame with a set of bean bags.
Clark’s latest collection with Supreme drops on September 3 in America and on September 5 in Asia. Get a better look at the entire collection below.
