Supreme x Yohji Yamamoto Scribble Portrait Tee
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
Original — Yohji Yamamoto
Scribble Portrait Tee
About the original
The Supreme x Yohji Yamamoto Scribble Portrait Tee is a short-sleeve cotton t-shirt featuring a front-chest scribble portrait of designer Yohji Yamamoto drawn by Tokyo-based illustrator Yuuka Asakura, paired with cobranded Supreme and Yohji Yamamoto wordmarks. Yohji Yamamoto founded his namesake label in Tokyo in 1972 and staged his first Paris show in 1981 alongside Rei Kawakubo, introducing the oversized black silhouettes that defined Japanese avant-garde fashion's arrival in Europe. The FW20 collaboration was his second full capsule with Supreme and released September 17, 2020 across tees, crewnecks, jackets, and a three-piece suit. Because the Asakura artwork was commissioned specifically for this capsule, the tee has no off-the-shelf original equivalent; the shirt retailed at $54 and regularly trades above $200 on resale.
About Yohji Yamamoto
Yohji Yamamoto is a Japanese fashion designer born in Tokyo in 1943 and trained at Bunka Fashion College. He launched his women's label Y's in 1977 and showed his first Paris collection under his own name in 1981 alongside Rei Kawakubo, a debut credited with introducing deconstructed, predominantly black tailoring to European fashion. Yamamoto founded Y-3 with Adidas in 2002, one of the first sustained sportswear-luxury partnerships, and continues to design his main line, Y's, and Pour Homme collections. His work is held in the collections of the Met and the V&A. Supreme collaborated with Yohji Yamamoto on outerwear and tailoring.
