Scotch & Soda’s latest capsule draws from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s catalog, specifically his Unbreakable painting. The aforementioned work dresses a camp collar shirt so thoroughly in fragmented text and layered color that wearing it amounts to a very good argument for treating your shirt like a canvas.
Scotch & Soda x Basquiat Collection
Basquiat was doing high art and street culture simultaneously before it was considered an achievement, and Scotch & Soda understands that the two were never separate to begin with. Paired with the brand’s light-wash Zee denim, the collection lands somewhere between a SoHo gallery opening and a Saturday afternoon in 1983.
Basquiat’s crown, the iconic yellow three-point symbol, appears as a small chest badge on the Breton stripe top. The stripe itself has served sailors, artists, and Coco Chanel alike, and here it picks up scattered Basquiat line drawings across the body.
Embroidered Basquiat motifs adorn a denim camp shirt layered over a graphic tee. The look captures the essence of Basquiat’s visual language: a style durable enough to outlast the cycles of fashion. In this industry, there is no higher compliment.
