Streetwear design history personal projectfrom @collspringer

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I love when brands tier. Not like this, but specifically like this. Flipping graphics and streetwear have always gone hand in hand. I remember hearing an interview with one of Supreme's early designers who said they would literally walk around New York, find find graphics they liked, and just change them to say Supreme. A few of my favorite examples of this, Supreme flipping this Metallica merch, no by bread alone graphic, and the Santa Monica Airlines pattern. A few years ago, I wanted to try the same concept myself, and I decided to take inspiration from one of the holy grails of vintage tees, the 1992 Lithuanian Olympic basketball team. They had just gained independence from the Soviet Union and struggled to fund its Olympic basketball team. That's when the Grateful Dead, yes, you heard me right, stepped in to help fund the team and created this now iconic skeleton graphic. The team went on to win bronze and famously wore these tie dye shirts on the Olympic podium. I wanted to put my own spin on the design by collaborating with my old high school through mine and my dad's rank, Good. But after reaching out to the school and hearing nothing back, I decided to take the streetwear approach and just make them anyway. Using the famous 3% Virgil rule, I flipped the original rank, printed a small run of the tier, and sold them at a flea market. A flea market that my high school was actually hosting. I might have a few of these left sitting in my parents' basement, so let me know if you'd got one.