The thing about that Basquiat collab is that virtually every company under the sun seemed to be throwing out basquiat branded stuff. DC wasn't alone in that. There is often this weird push with consumer goods where suddenly overnight certain artists are everywhere. Same thing happened with Warhol and Haring, not to mention the tons of classical artists who's works are in the public domain. It's just trends, if you hate it then don't buy it.
Also, as much as guys tend to shit on Blondey and Thames, at least he did something a little different with his Francis Bacon collection and actually has a real personal connection to the artist. Thames is supposed to celebrate the history of London and Britain, and Bacon is probably the best London-based artist of the last 50 years.
I think Basquit, Warhol, Haring are all managed by the same Giant IP company. It's a revolving fuckin door once you notice it. it's Converse this season, next season is DC, then it's doc martins, and then, then reebok.. and so on and so forth.
I think the idea is to trick people into thinking it's limited or special or whatever, but how special is your Hello kitty lakai's if you can just get hello kitty adidas in 2 months? Hello Kitty vans next, year, and then lakai again in 3 years.
Remember when DC and Lakai were pushing purple/black shoes with some band at almost the same time? It's so gross, and these IP companies have these little brands gassed up thinking that if they hop into this "collab" ecosystem then their one of the big boys.
Topic: Post UPCOMING/RECENT shoe releases thread (Read 10223512 times)