Supreme celebrates the iconic photograph of Nan Goldin
The nuanced subversion of streetwear culture makes protagonists those who have always been relegated to the periphery of society
Fashion
March 26th, 2018
March 26th, 2018
After Damien Hirst, Larry Clark, Andy Warhol or Jean-Michel Basquiat, Supreme dedicates a capsule collection for the SS18 to the iconic photograph of Nan Goldin.
The streetstyle brand chooses three works created by the artist between the '70s and' 90s to make unique coach jackets, tees and a set of skateboards: Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi (NYC 1991), Kim in Rhinestones (Paris 1991) and Nan as a Dominatrix (Cambridge MA 1978).
They are a small example of the instinctive and raw gaze of the photographer who told with her talent life, sex, transgression, drugs, friendship and loneliness, night parties, drag queens, subjects often defined on the margins.
“Nan Goldin's work is real and raw - in the time, places and subject matter she shot” - states in a Supreme press release - “It comes from an era where the subjects she documented were taboo by society’s standards. To do this project with Nan Goldin is to celebrate the diversity her work represents and expose young people to it.”
"I did it for the kids" - replies Nan - “I’m looking forward to seeing teenagers skating on my images and wearing them. To my mind, people have become so conservative, especially the millennials – its like the 1960s never happened – so I like the idea of them being exposed to my real world.”
