253 Supreme T-Shirts-
In 2014, James Bogart bought his first T-shirt from the cult US streetwear brand Supreme. In the six years since, he has acquired every single retail-released tee sporting the label’s iconic box logo — a collection now expected to sell for around $2 million.
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In 2014, James Bogart bought his first T-shirt from the cult US streetwear brand Supreme. In the six years since, he has acquired every single retail-released tee sporting the label’s iconic box logo — a collection now expected to sell for around $2 million.
Bogart’s Box Logo Collection will be presented as a private sale alongside an online auction of other rare Supreme items at Christie’s in New York.The collection, described by the auction house as a “holy grail” for Supreme fans and collectors, contains 253 differentshirts released between 1994 to 2020 — the entire course of the brand’s history.
Supreme’s brand and more recent fame have been built through social media hypeand scarcity. Its clothes can only be bought online or through a network of just 12 stores worldwide — meaning the items are highly coveted, can go for exorbitant prices and often attract long lines of customers waiting overnight to buy them.
Bogart’s collection, which is considered the first complete archive of Supreme tees to ever exist, contains many items that are impossible to find, even in the secondary market, said Christie’s in a press release.
“By the time 2015 rolled around, I had developed a strong interest in the brand, picking up the releases I liked as they dropped. I’ve still got many of those initial purchases in my collection today,” said Bogart on a website created for the collection.
“From that point on, my interest grew into an obsession, and (I) started adding to my collection as often as I could, always looking for the best condition examples I could find… A lot of people don’t think about the non-stop weeks, months, and even years of research and work that it can take to find just one tee.” Read more from CNN Fashion.
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