A well-worn David Lynch for Supreme T-shirt featuring a still from Blue Velvet, shaped by years of personal wear and natural patina.
Category: Curated
File Under: Avant-Garde Cinema, Streetwear Ephemera, Personal Provenance
An original David Lynch for Supreme T-shirt featuring the Blue Velvet* still of Isabella Rossellini performing on stage — a collaboration that paired Lynch’s surrealist cinema with Supreme New York. This piece was acquired new in New York City and gifted to me by creative director Ryan Willms (Inventory Magazine) during the period when we both lived on the Lower East Side, apartments separated only by Delancey, neighbours on Orchard Street.
I wore this tee regularly for years — through craft, painting, errands and sports — and it carries the evidence of that life: a soft, broken-in hand, a faint greenish cast from sun and wash, specks of paint, and a trace of adhesive from a moment long forgotten. The graphic remains intact, with wear settling around it rather than through it. Interior neck print reads David Lynch for Supreme.
It holds a particular moment when streetwear, independent publishing, and art-house cinema briefly intersected in streetwear — not as hype, but as a shared language between small creative communities. Letting it live on with someone who will wear or archive it feels truer than letting it retire in a drawer.
*A vintage VHS copy of Blue Velvet is also available here.
A well-worn David Lynch for Supreme T-shirt featuring a still from Blue Velvet, shaped by years of personal wear and natural patina.
Category: Curated
File Under: Avant-Garde Cinema, Streetwear Ephemera, Personal Provenance
An original David Lynch for Supreme T-shirt featuring the Blue Velvet* still of Isabella Rossellini performing on stage — a collaboration that paired Lynch’s surrealist cinema with Supreme New York. This piece was acquired new in New York City and gifted to me by creative director Ryan Willms (Inventory Magazine) during the period when we both lived on the Lower East Side, apartments separated only by Delancey, neighbours on Orchard Street.
I wore this tee regularly for years — through craft, painting, errands and sports — and it carries the evidence of that life: a soft, broken-in hand, a faint greenish cast from sun and wash, specks of paint, and a trace of adhesive from a moment long forgotten. The graphic remains intact, with wear settling around it rather than through it. Interior neck print reads David Lynch for Supreme.
It holds a particular moment when streetwear, independent publishing, and art-house cinema briefly intersected in streetwear — not as hype, but as a shared language between small creative communities. Letting it live on with someone who will wear or archive it feels truer than letting it retire in a drawer.
*A vintage VHS copy of Blue Velvet is also available here.
Dimensions: Unisex Medium (fits true to early-2010s Supreme Medium)
Material: 100% cotton
Condition: Significant but even patina from long-term wear; graphic strong; fabric softened
Care: Cold wash, inside out; hang dry
