Might be more but I like this
Me too.
Some nice stuff in there
But going through it all (seems to be getting bigger and bigger) takes forever
Thatâs part of the fun!
Thereâs also a blender cap.
No cap.
Plus all the drops theyâre not showing us yet. Like the Rammellzee Dunk (which should be dropping this season).
oof the Pyrex tubs are back.
https://twitter.com/ComplexStyle/status/1697260194705850853?t=3uLM1TPqqBBUVgD7i1mKDA&s=19
First Iâve heard of this
I still donât understand Supreme, I like their videos but donât get anything else.
More info in the Caption
It sounds like they wanted to put the below image on some clothing (CW: very graphic image of whipping scarring):
But a black employee said this was a bad idea, understandably. Then the creative director resigned as a result, maybe because of the way Supreme handled it as they didnât let him know or because the decision scuppered this collab with Arthur Jafa? Not sure.
Edit: they also wanted to put an image of a hanging of enslaved people on clothing.
Am I? The above picture is one Jafa uses in his art a lot and is the one referenced in articles on the piece. Itâs a pretty important historical one (more info here), thought people would be interested to see what was going to end up on Supreme clothing.
My other assertions were just reiterating what Emory said in his Instagram statement.
From Emoryâs statement:
because of the depiction of black men being hung and the freed slave gordon pictured with his whip lashes on his back.
The reference to âthe freed slave gordonâ is clearly a reference to the image I posted as the man in the photo has been identified as Gordon for a number of years, although the Smithsonian renamed it âPeterâ more recently. Itâs an image Jafa has used in his artwork before.
Guilty to an extent. Although the Emory Instagram post is pretty revealing.
Plenty of black people think this was a bad idea. See the comments on Emoryâs Insta post and on Twitter (if you can be arsed, understandable if you canât).
For what itâs worth, Supreme were in a difficult position here with two black employees having very opposing views on this issue. But I think they dodged a bullet on this one. An image like the above needs a lot of contextualising, so apologies for throwing it on to the forum (did give you a content warning, as well as blurring it).
Iâm just interested in this story and the issues it touches on - how contentious history is used and where the boundaries of doing so sensitively lie. Speaks a lot to the current moment.
Itâs clothes and hats no stress, probs a brick