The most bizarre and incredible story behind a Supreme Tee

Let's make it easy, we came across the most improbable and absurd story linked to Supreme.
However, a premise is necessary, do not take what we tell you as cast gold we report only what came out thanks to the Instagram account Supreme Copies, a real archive of all the references and inspirations of the New York brand.

To tell this story we have to go back 48 years, we are in Holland in 1970 and a happy little family decides that the time has come for a nice photo shoot and to take the pictures will be the neighbour with a passion for photography. Among the photographs taken there is a very particular one, different from the others. A close-up of a crying baby, evidently annoyed, scared or simply a little capricious who just didn't want to take the picutre. The result is terrific, a beautiful and at the same time simple photo, and we all know that the real secret of beauty lies in simplicity.
A couple of days ago the Instagram account Supreme Copies put in one of its stories the "Cry Baby" tee of 2015, not expecting in the least what it would later discover. A follower of the page contacts the administrators of the same stating that the girl who cries on the photo tee is his sister and that photo was part of a photo shoot taken by his neighbour in the Netherlands in 1970, also sending photos to support his thesis.

Over the course of running this page, many pieces to many puzzles have come together thanks to my followers. Every now and then I get a bizarre story in my DMs regarding Supremes more obscure references. This is by far the the strangest one yet. After posting on my story yesterday, many people were asking for a proper write up, so here it is. A follower of mine reached out to me stating that a photo of their sister had been used for the ‘Cry Baby,’ tee in 2015. Being that this graphic never had its origins properly traced, I had him send more information. The ‘Cry Baby,’ photograph was apart of a family photo shoot taken back over 40 years ago in 1970. The photographer was simply the families neighbor in Holland; my follower was too young at the time to remember his name, along with the rest of the family forgetting somewhere along the 48 year period. The photographs from the shoot have been in the family house forever, and pictured in the bottom left corner is the original scan of the image (not just a cropped graphic). Now how Supreme acquired this image is the mystery. Did the photographer become successful at some point during these 48 years and have the Cry Baby image a part of his portfolio, which Supreme then licensed and used unaccredited? Supreme has been known to use stock images or even unlicensed artwork as well so there’s always a possibility they never even reached out to the photographer when stumbling across the image. While this post may not cover the ‘why,’ and ‘who,’ to the reference (as in why put a crying baby on a tee and who did it first), it’s really awesome that the page has gotten to this point to where even family photo shoots from nearly 50 years ago can be tracked down as a reference , and they know exactly who to reach when it is. I’d like to thank all my followers for this one!

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All this time the photos remained in that Dutch house, and no family member remembers the name of the photographer who took those pictures. How Supreme came across that crying baby remains a mystery, it might be that the photographer in question in recent years has been successful, put the photo in his portfolio and then Supreme has used it without crediting but since the brand founded from James Jebbia usually uses archival images or without license, we think it is plausible that whoever took that photo is in the dark about everything, in case he is still alive.
We will continue to follow the story in its eventual developments and we'll keep you updated on other pieces of this rather curious story.