Supreme Lou Reed Posters Defaced
by Staff, March 1, 2009

New York label Supreme recently launched their Spring/Summer 2009 campaign which featured a photography of musician Lou Reed shot by Terry Richardson. Just like the previous Kermit the Frog Supreme posters, the Lou Reed posters which were posted on the streets of New York were vandalized by an unknown group. According to Grotesk which provided these images, they defaced at least 60 posters.


Its payback for all the street art supreme covers up with their latest ad campaigns. Those tyson and kermit posters covered a lot of good work out there.
FAILE does that “vanit y” thing, but i doubt it was them.
I bet half those kids who buy those Lou Reed shirts won’t even know who the fuck he is. Same went for the James Brown and Bad Brains shit. Why else were those pieces at the sample sale? Cause they most likely didn’t sell.
Did anybody notice the shirt says “vanity” instead of Supreme.
I think that’s even funnier LOL
like the dudes up above say….who cares….lol lol the tony the tiger face look cooler anyways lol
maybe supreme’s own ad department did this themselves.
look, it already got at least TWO different stories on their lou reed posters.
now that’s marketing!
uhh didnt supreme vandalize by placing posters in locations other than their store? who cares if someone vandalized their “vandal-ing” posters
Rain your blessings down on us, oh tiger headed Lou Reed.
stop crying who the fuck cares
Oh man, you believe all the hype don´t you?
Supreme did all that….so true and that´s real real real guerellia marketing-wow wow wow.
They got what they want.People talk about it post about it and visit their homepage…after that.
Page Impressions after that?
Too many…
“VANDALISM?? OR ART??
OH I SEE ONLY WHEN ITS SUITS YOU!!!”
SUPREME IS THE DEATH
Banksy did it…
“guess what, the dudes at DQM are cool as shit, not to mention Dave himself is willing to talk to his customers, and they dont give a shit who you are.”
Seriously , this dude knows what’s what.
DQM for the win.
J.
It’s a Banksy rip off, but not nearly half as cool. But still, it got posted here. So somebody did a good job.
chris is right.
dave is cool.
i met him last winter.
supreme is over rated.
they honestly think that they’re calvin klein
or something.
fuck the bullshit.
lou reed looks better as a tiger.
holla.
Fuck, I’m a lousy speller…lol!
Isn’t advertisement postering illegal anyway, so wouldn’t they be defacing property as well in that sense?
Hahaah seriously who gives a shit !!!
It’s halrious anyway…and it’s problably someone they know?
Cool
This is hypebeast, which explains why it’s news. To Chris, I love DQM, and the guys there are mad chill, I actually had a conversation with them over the summer about pants. Never met Dave though.
Funny how only 60 were defaced. It’s not like Supreme had permission to post them up…
Has the whole world gone crazy!!!??? Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules????
the truth is, lou reed magically turned into a tiger. duh.
Slow news day.
The bold lettering of the 80s graffiti was consciously and subconsciously in response to the huge billboards being posted up in peoples neighborhoods. That’s like liberal high school, art class lesson 101. So here we have pop street art in it’s latest form. A poster of a classic photo of Lou Reed that has been altered/defaced to represent the brand Supreme. Then someone covers a blank wall with the posters, usually a construction site with 4 by 8 sheets of plywood in front. The posters themselves are a form of defacement. Supreme doesn’t pay for this wall space. These sheets of plywood have signs on them stating, Post No Bills. So Supreme posts bills anyways. Now someone else comes along and posts a poster on top of a poster. What I’m waiting for next is the guy who puts up the blank comic book blurbs to place them by the tiger head and then we’d have 4 layers of crusty street art. A freaking multi-person collage. I wouldn’t be mad at a black marker dick in the tiger’s mouth either. That’s always classic.
wow hahaha this is great
the essence of street art.
its everyone’s wall and you can’t take the whole fucking wall without someone taking some space back.
Who cares? It’s only Supreme..
Would have been tight if UK Street Artists D*Face Actually had something to do with this. or Kaws, then we’d have had a story.
Probably Supreme Peeps that did it to their own posters.
Someone try de facing the store – that’s news!!*(hos p*
This posy does not promote or condone vandalising**
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I think this poster, in particular, is more interesting defaced. Moreover, I wouldnt be surprised if the posters were put up with the intention of being defaced.
I think everything has been said, but it really does not matter.
SUPREME stopped being about skateboarding a long time ago.
If anything, the posters look cooler now.
i think everyone is failing to realize how badass lou reed looks as a tiger. i mean, shit lets get out our razor blades and nail polish remover and take home some posters. defaced my ass, that would still sell to some retard on ebay based solely on the fact that its from nyc and its from supreme.
as a skateboarder i think those guys are dicks. i think they forget that theres more to life than $100 half cabs, $1200 bianchis on aerospokes.
maybe if they ever stop being so goddamn pretentious, and hip people who are above hype will start respecting them again.
guess what, the dudes at DQM are cool as shit, not to mention Dave himself is willing to talk to his customers, and they dont give a shit who you are.
im done.
someone was smart. they probably plannd this out beforehand in order to promote their own art. why is anyone crying about it? does supreme think that because theyre a popular brand that no one would “deface” their art. and i agree with nudist ^^ its a win-win situation.
more publicity, supreme wins.
ok everyone can stop saying “who cares” now, your not gonna get any cooler
why is this news? no one gives a damn
Really people? It’s just another person making a statement by changing an image or poster. The fact that its a Supreme poster shouldn’t change anything, especially in a culture that bases so much on street art. I mean would people be freaking out if Kaws was the one who “defaced” these posters?
The arguments from the anti streetwear/anti-supreme camps are just as generic as the brands they claim to hate. Really no one cares. Wow you defaced a load of supreme posters, though who know will still be able to recognise these as supreme lou-reed posters and probably be able to tell you that the pictures from the upcoming drop. Vandalising these poster will change nothing.
lol “vandalized”
cheap shot way to get known of a known ad campaign.
Ha, yeah. Who cares really? Anyway, they look better now.
next kaws?
lmfao!! werd who cares..unless it was tyson..cuz tyson wud of fucked some1 up
too bad they didn’t have anything to say then…
yea, for reals….who cares?
I agree. Both images look gay anyways.
VANDALISM?? OR ART??
OH I SEE ONLY WHEN ITS SUITS YOU!!!
seriously. who cares? their ads are not precious.
seriously!! who really does care!! vandalism is the new hype?
People who think these posters are interesting and appreciate this kind of advertising. Asshole.
+1 to that.
^ – Haha, too true man.
Hahaha, yeah.
WHO CARES?
F*** the Supreme hype!
“who cares”
qft
cheers/dom
who cares