Supplemental Post #2 - Michael Luisi

For Today's post I wanted to talk about the latest clothing collaboration that James Jebbia did with  famous Rap/Hip-Hop group Public Enemy. Jebbia is best known for his counter culture clothing line known as Supreme. While the clothing was originally intended for skaters, its streetwear style took off becoming one of the most influential brands and highly sought after products among consumers. Its items are notorious for being sold-out in seconds and then being resold for a premium of up to about 1000% because of how rare and popular it is.


However, this latest drop with Public Enemy seems like the two are trying to make a political statement by having the line feature their third album, "Fear Of A Black Planet". The album was well known for its anti-racism and anti-police messages. While this album is an amazing piece of art, its depressing that the racist issues seen in album thats almost 30 years old can still attributed in our society. The fact that the you can quote lines from the album like, "Go back to Africa" and see similar variations being used by the alt-right in 2018.

While its inspiring to see more and more groups come out against the hate speak that is being perpetuated in our country, I hope this can help put an end to it. However I do think there are other ways to rebel that to wear a heinous jacket it like this. At least this collaboration has more meaning than their recent Louis Vuitton collaboration.



Could you imagine paying 100K for this?