Military Jacket No. 1 (Sex Pistols)

SHEPARD FAIREY (B. 1970), with ROLLAND BERRY

Military Jacket 1 (Sex Pistols)

mixed media artifact: silkscreened, hand-painted and stencilled dead stock military jacket, with WWII army tent patches and metal studs; framed

38 x 43 x 3 inches (96.5 x 109.2 x 7.6 cm)

Executed in 2010.

A one-of-a-kind artwork from Shepard Fairey's 2010 collaboration with the designer Rolland Berry — a project Berry described as "wearable art," and which produced a series of one-off jackets built around the OBEY visual vocabulary spliced with classic punk-rock iconography. Each jacket in the project took thirty-five to forty hours of work by hand: hand-studding, hand-distressing, hand-pulled silkscreens, individually mixed palettes, treated as three-dimensional paintings rather than garments.

Number 1 in the project, this military-cut jacket is built on a dead stock vintage military base, appliquéd with WWII-era army tent patches and finished with hand-applied metal studs. The composition carries Sex Pistols imagery — the band Fairey credits as the one that changed his life at age fourteen, the moment, in his words, that "marked a turning point" in his orientation toward art, music and design. The three jackets in the Rolland Berry collaboration were shown together at an OBEY Clothing pop-up at 151 Orchard Street, New York City in May 2010. The present work is sold framed.

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