Closer Look at the Artwork of Supreme Spring/Summer 2025
Featuring Damien Hirst’s taxidermy installations, an Aphex Twin ‘Windowlicker’ smile and Twyla Tharp’s graffiti ballet.
Supreme’s Spring/Summer 2025 collection has arrived, and it’s nothing short of a masterclass in creative collaboration. Packed with prints and patterns from a gamut of contemporary artists, this season gears its attention toward iconic art moments and brings new works to the forefront through a range of garments, accessories and skate decks, featuring the likes of Ernie Barnes, Damien Hirst, Aphex Twin and more.
Check out some of the artists and artworks behind SS25 below.
Damien Hirst
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First up is the puffer jacket, seen in the collection’s teaser, featuring an allover print of “Black Sheep with Golden Horns” by British artist Damien Hirst. Created in 2009, the sculpture preserves a golden-horned sheep in formalin and explores themes of religion, sacrifice and rebellion. Also, “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,” another work in his infamous Natural History series, lands on a number of products. The original 14-foot tiger shark stands as one of his most notorious pieces, garnering global shock for its bold confrontation of life and death.
Ernie Barnes
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This season also sees paintings by the late, athlete-turned-artist Ernie Barnes, highlighting two of his most famous pieces, “The Sugar Shack” and “Main Street Pool Hall,” with the former – the cover art for Marvin Gaye’s I Want You – featured across a six-deck display. Created in his signature, elongated style, the piece captures a bustling dancehall in segregated mid-century Durham. Brimming with rhythm and movement, Barnes’ was inspired by an early memory of sneaking into the Durham Armory and witnessing dancers lose themselves in the moment’s joy.
Mario Ayala
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Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Mario Ayala shows some love to car culture in the Receiver tee and skateboard, which depicts a classic car stereo interface blasting MF DOOM’s classic album Operation Doomsday. Here, Ayala shifts toward the illustrative, evoking nostalgia, play and grief in his exploration of lowrider aesthetics and Latinx material culture.
Aphex Twin
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Aphex Twin’s iconic Windowlicker spoof graces the front of a tee, bringing to mind Richard David James’ knack for the grotesque and ironic. Designed by Chris Cunningham in 1999, the album artwork swaps a bikini model’s face for the artist’s unsettling grin – an image whose cult-like following amidst the underground electronic scene would only grow in today’s internet landscape.
Twyla Tharp and Herbert Migdoll
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Graffiti, dance and fashion collide in an allover printed anorak and t-shirt featuring a photograph of Twyla Tharp’s 1973 ballet Deuce Coupe captured by Herbert Migdoll. Soundtracked to the Beach Boys, Tharp’s piece made its mark through a masterful blend of classical and contemporary. For Deuce Coupe, she tapped NYC-based United Graffiti Artists to create a series of live backdrops, accustomed to each night’s performance.
