Here’s a collaboration that just screams “perfect.” We love it when a collaboration is so seamlessly right, there’s that brief moment of thinking why it hasn’t happened before. Now, Supreme have teamed up with the legendary Cost (of Cost and Revs fame) for a collection of four limited edition t-shirts. The t-shirts were designed by Cost and feature some of his famous black and white graphics, including a personal favorite in “Cost Fucked Madonna.” Here’s what Supreme had to say about the collaboration and their reasons for choosing Cost:

“A Graffiti writer schooled in the techniques of bombing, Cost saw an opening to use the public space in a new way. In his campaign of simple white 8 1/2² X 11″ paper postering on the backs of Walk / Don’t Walk traffic signs, he took the idea of guerilla bombing and combined it with the blatant mass appeal of advertising. The language had changed from the insider hieroglyphics of graffiti to the simple text of cold type that anyone -young and old, black and white, rich and poor, could read. As a result the city paid attention. Unlike traditional graffiti tags that became aesthetic background noise, these messages – “Cost Fucked Madonna”, “Cost Was Here” -were dead simple, and blanketed the city in a way that no one could ignore.

Though many young Street Artists take the credit for the novelty of what they do- the bad boy persona of breaking the law, mixed with the brilliant creativeness and inventiveness of a marketing agency- they seem to have forgotten rule number one in Graffiti, and in Street art – originality is King. Cost did it first.”

Available in-store and online October 14th. Available in Japan on October 16th. Check out all the tees below.

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