Supreme has returned with a fresh Spring 2022 collection, this time in partnership with the Roy DeCarava Archives, following the success of its first collaboration with Stone Island.
The renowned Harlem-born photographer Roy DeCarava has inspired a line of t-shirts and hooded sweatshirts from the streetwear business.
On May 19, at 11 a.m. EDT in the United States, and on May 21, at 11 a.m. JST in Japan, The Supreme will start selling items from the Roy DeCarava collection.
The fashion brand has announced that all proceeds from the sale of the Roy DeCarava collection would be donated to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.
Supreme has made Roy DeCarava, a legendary photographer, the focus of its Spring 2022 collection.
The collection stresses the label’s significance outside of fashion, as do the bulk of the label’s collaborations.
The streetwear company pays close attention to DeCarava’s artwork before printing it on shirts and hoodies while minimizing its own branding.
Two different print t-shirts from the collection, as well as a sweatshirt honoring the icon’s earlier work. There are five different color options for the sweatshirt: black, blue, tangerine, mint green, and white. They have a back print of the 1964 photo of Malcolm X. The cost of each piece of outerwear is $158.
The Malcolm X portrait is used on the first shirt in the collection, while DeCarava’s distinctive artwork is featured on the second shirt. His work, which is astoundingly simple, powerful, and dramatic, is displayed on t-shirts in four different colors.
The materials used to make the shirts include white, light blue, light green, and black. When it is made available, the t-shirt will cost $44.
Roy DeCarava was born in Harlem, New York, in 1919. The artist spent more than 60 years capturing subtle, moving pictures of life both at home and abroad. He described the art in the following way:
Art is the highest form of expression because it strives to be the only thing that matters, making it as pure, perfect, and priceless as possible.
DeCarava first used a camera as a creative tool for painting before mastering painting, etching, and freehand sketching. He started producing intriguing, dark silver gelatin prints in the late 1940s, which allowed for new technical possibilities in contemporary photography.
The first exhibition of the artist’s images took place in 1950 in New York. He received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for photography in 1952, making him the first African-American to do so.
DeCarava’s rich and innovative partnership with poet Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life, was made possible by the Fellowship. Hughes created a dramatic fictional scenario told from the viewpoint of Sister Mary Bradley, Harlem’s grandmother, using a couple of his images.
In 1960, DeCarava released The Sound I Saw, a handcrafted artist’s book about his involvement in the developing entertainment industry in New York City. Roy sponsored a new generation of photographers throughout his life and promoted fine art photography.
A well-known art critic, Roberta Smith, commented on Roy’s work and said,
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