Supreme and Vaquera unite on provocative outerwear at Dover Street Market

When two of New York’s most restless designers collide, the results tend toward the transgressive. Supreme and Vaquera have joined forces on a collection of outerwear that sits at the precise intersection of their sensibilities: Supreme’s graphic irreverence and Vaquera’s taste for religious iconography rendered in unexpected materials and colour.

The centrepiece is a hoodie and jacket constructed from a patchwork of burgundy and forest green, densely layered with repeated branding in a trompe l’oeil effect. At its heart sits a crucifixion figure rendered in sickly jade green and cream, arms splayed wide across a field of dollar bills. The motif recalls Vaquera’s penchant for baroque excess and moral provocation, while the surrounding serigraph of Supreme’s box logo repeats across the garment in fading red letters, creating a surface that reads as both devotional and commercial, sacred and profane.

The black pucker fleece sleeves provide textural counterpoint to the printed main body, their gathered, almost baroque articulation suggesting tailoring gone delightfully awry. The silhouette is generous, oversized in the manner Supreme favours, yet with Vaquera’s characteristic attention to unexpected volume and proportion. Paired with black track trousers and worn on streets lit by neon storefronts, the jacket becomes a portable statement: illegible to some, deliberately uncomfortable to others, and utterly uncompromising to those who understand what both labels are after.

The collaboration drops Thursday, November 5th at Dover Street Market New York, first come, first served.

Imagery courtesy of Supreme and Vaquera (@doverstreetmarketnewyork).