Supreme x Yohji Yamamoto TEKKEN Skateboard
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
About the original
Yohji Yamamoto is a Japanese fashion designer who founded his eponymous Tokyo-based label in 1972, known for deconstructed tailoring, an almost exclusively black palette, and a long-running role in Japanese avant-garde fashion alongside Rei Kawakubo. TEKKEN is Bandai Namco's 3D fighting game franchise, first released in arcades in 1994 and a foundational title in the polygon-era fighter genre. This FW22 three-way collaboration prints Yamamoto's illustrated TEKKEN character art across the top of a 7-ply maple skateboard deck, with co-branded Japanese-character graphics on the underside. The deck was released alongside matching apparel as part of Supreme's FW22 Yohji Yamamoto capsule.
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. The debut introduced deconstructed, predominantly black tailoring to European runways. 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.
