The world might be in literal shambles, but Supreme is still turning out new collabs. The latest drop for the streetwear brand is a collection with underground Japanese artist Toshio Saeki – more commonly referred to by his fans as ‘The Godfather of Japanese Erotica’ – which lands this week.
The three-piece capsule collection, created just months before Saeki passed away last January, features a matching work jacket and work pants, and a hooded sweatshirt – each covered in patches demonstrating his signature artistic style. Each square sees Saeki combine Japanese cinema, kamishibai (the handmade picture cards he designed as a child), and ‘Shuga’, a graphic style of Japanese erotic art.
The artist, who also created the album art for John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s album Somewhere in New York City, told us in 2013: “Leave other people to draw seemingly beautiful flowers that bloom within nice, pleasant-looking scenery. I try instead to capture the vivid flowers that sometimes hide and sometimes grow within a shameless, immoral, and horrifying dream.”
Besides its recent collection with The Smurfs, Supreme’s AW20 accessory line featuring a hypebeast-y Chucky doll and a tube of box logo branded Colgate toothpaste. Earlier this year, the label also dropped a line inspired by 80s club kid Leigh Bowery, and collaborated with legendary Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto on a collection of graphic parkas, jackets, and knitwear. At least there’s plenty for streetwear fanatics to look forward to amid the surely-impending apocalypse.
The Supreme x Toshio Saeki collection is set to release online on November 5, and on November 7 in Japan. Revisit our guide to Saeki here and check out his work in the gallery below.
