Images: Supreme New York / Louis Vuitton / Sotheby's
Five years on from Supreme cracking open the Pandora's box of high-low fashion collaborations, a new formidable partnership is said to be on the horizon, this time with high end provocateurs of the day Balenciaga.
The subtle flash of a familiar looking red box logo tee down Balenciaga's Spring 2023 Ready-to-Wear runway last month may in fact have been a sly hint of bigger things to come, with a full collaborative collection rumoured to release as part of the coming Spring Summer 2023 Supreme season.
The 2017 team up between hallowed French luxury brand Louis Vuitton and the New York streetwear brand - engineered by then Men's Artistic Director for Louis Vuitton, Kim Jones - caused an absolute frenzy among fashion fans at the time.
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The partnership arguably inspired a wave of high-low partnerships in the years since: Dior x Stussy, Gucci x The North Face, sacai x Nike, Prada x Adidas to name but a few.
Supreme themselves have since launched collections with several established high end fashion designers and brands including Burberry, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons, Emilio Pucci, Jean Paul Gaultier and more.
While a degree of collab fatigue may have begun to set in for some amid dwindling resell values and a continuing cost of living squeeze, unwieldy queues still formed outside Burberry and Supreme stores this past Spring in anticipation of the release of the co-branded apparel, making the potency of their counter cultural allure and enduring "cool" factor self evident with each new sold out collection.
