Supreme Tee shirts collection on sale by Christie’s for about $2 million

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Supreme T-shirt collection on sale by Christie's for about $2 million

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The most total collection of Supreme Tee shirts is being marketed at Christie’s for about $2 million, highlighting the skyrocketing worth of the high-end streetwear brand name and the growing significance of a brand-new generation in the antiques world.

The Tee shirts collection is the only total set of Supreme’s “box-logo” Tee Shirts, which were launched because 1994, understood to exist. The collection functions 253 t-shirts, which exercises to approximately more than $7,900 per Tee shirts.

The collection is being provided as a personal sale, implying a purchaser would buy it straight from Christie’s instead of through auction. The specific asking rate is not public, however Christie’s stated the collection is valued at over $2 million.

It’s being included to promote Christie’s first-ever auction committed to Supreme, which began as a single skateboard store in downtown Manhattan and ended up being a worldwide streetwear feeling. Supreme was just recently gotten by VF Corp. for $2.1 billion.

The Tee shirts collection is being offered by James Bogart, a 21-year-old Canadian style trainee who began purchasing Supreme equipment when he was 14. Growing up in Vancouver, Bogart stated he didn’t live near any Supreme shops however had skater pals who presented him to the brand name, leading him to purchase a Supreme coat influenced by American reporter Hunter S. Thompson.

After discovering more about the brand name, Bogart began purchasing Tee shirts and made it his objective to develop the very first “complete archive” of each of Supreme’s 241 creates in addition to 12 Tee Shirts that were either samples or “friends and family” styles. Supreme is popular for its limited-edition “drops,” where consumers line up for blocks to get their hands on a little number of brand-new releases.

The early t-shirts were the hardest to discover, he stated, because Supreme often launched just 50 to 150 t-shirts. He discovered one t-shirt in the collection unintentionally, while checking out another collector in London who revealed him a Christmas-colored Tee shirts he didn’t even understand existed. Another style, including Arabic lettering, is likewise exceptionally uncommon.

“My passion sort of transformed,” Bogart stated. “Eventually, I figured, hey, I can go for something no one else has ever completed.”

Bogart confesses that $2 million is a “ridiculous” amount for a set of Tee shirts. But he stated Supreme is more like art than clothes, with shortage, cultural importance and worths that speak with a brand-new generation of collector.

A collection of Supreme skateboard decks was auctioned by Sotheby’s in 2015 for $800,000, and Artcurial held a Supreme auction in 2018 that generated more than $1 million.

“Supreme has been a mainstay,” Bogart stated. “They’ve been at the forefront of defining culture really. The easiest way to sort of define the value of this collection is the fact that it is the pumping heart of the brand, it is something that will always be a very significant cultural symbol.”

Bogart will not state precisely just how much he invested to put together the collection. He stated each Tee shirts went through a comprehensive multistage confirmation procedure, with aid from a previous Supreme staffer. He published in-depth pictures of the t-shirts into a digital archive for additional public confirmation.

Currently studying company and style in Italy, Bogart stated that as much as he would delight in the windfall, he will be sorry to part with the collection.

“I think it’ll be a little bit bittersweet,” he stated. “For me, it was always about the hunt. And the fact that so many people deem to this collection impossible to be completed. So once it was completed, there was a sense of great relief and great pride, but I really did want to put it on a stage where it could be appreciated and do the collection justice.”

As for whether any brand-new purchaser will in fact use the diligently preserved t-shirts, Bogart stated: “I hope that they don’t wear them. I’ve spent so long trying to get these shirts in their best possible condition. I think it would be a little bit painful to watch. But again, whoever does buy it, I would totally encourage them to do whatever makes them happy.”

Christie’s committed Supreme auction, called “Behind the Box: 1994-2020,” opened for bidding Tuesday and will run till Dec. 15.