Photographer and filmmaker Ari Marcopolous moved to New York City in the early '80s where he got his start assisting the likes of Andy Warhol and Irving Penn. By the early '90s, he had established a cult following and already had an extensive history of creating intimate portraits of the city's subculture icons, from Public Enemy and Run DMC to Keith Haring and Dennis Hopper, when a chance encounter with professional skateboarder Jeff Pang at the Brooklyn Banks led him to take the now iconic portraits of the late Harold Hunter and Justin Pierce at the same time Larry Clark was beginning to film Kids. Supreme opened their doors on Lafayette in 1994 and would later fill the space with a collage of Marcopolous' photos of local skateboarders. In 1996, they released this T-shirt with Marcopolous' early portraits of the late Jean-Michel Basquiat as a tribute to both Supreme and Marcopolous' roots. Supreme has gone on to do several collaborations with Marcopolous over the years, making his photographs an integral part of the brand's DNA and history, though this T-shirt from their first collaboration is inarguably one of the rarest and most covetable.

Condition: Lightly used

Measurements:
Labeled size: XL
Shoulders: 23"
Chest: 25"
Length: 27.5"