120 pages 21,1 x 21 cm Language: English Paperback Publisher: Self-Published 2019
A book that does one thing and does it relentlessly: place a Supreme garment on one page and, facing it, the design it came from. Vol. 2 continues the project begun by an anonymous collector in 2017 — an Instagram archive documenting what the brand has copied, referenced or paid homage to across three decades of drops, cross-checked against the source objects: rival labels, band merch, films, advertising, fine art, work-wear, other people's logos. The format leaves the reader to draw their own conclusions, and that restraint is the argument.
Its interest goes well beyond brand fandom. Assembled entirely by a collector working alone, printed independently after publishers declined the legal exposure of an unauthorised book on a billion-dollar label, it is a piece of DIY publishing that tackles authorship, appropriation and the very old question of where quotation stops and copying begins — the question graffiti, punk flyers and sampling have all lived inside. Vol. 1 appeared in 2017; the compiler has remained anonymous throughout, and both volumes circulate almost exclusively second-hand.
