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For Spring 2026 Week 8, Supreme reconnects with the work of late American artist Mike Kelley for their second collaboration, following their first collection in 2018. This latest release draws directly from Kelley’s unmistakable visual language, delivering results that feel as overwhelming and brilliant as you’d expect from a figure who spent decades blurring the line between fine art and everyday ephemera.
Kelley was born in Michigan and was deeply embedded in Detroit’s punk scene before relocating to Los Angeles in the mid-’70s. His multidisciplinary practice spanned performance, sculpture, video, and installation, often centered around the discarded and culturally overlooked—stuffed animals, childhood memorabilia, and hoarded trinkets—reframed as objects worthy of serious examination. He later taught at CalArts, collaborated with Sonic Youth, and built a body of work that was at once humorous, unsettling, and sharply critical of memory and identity. The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts was established following his passing to preserve and extend that legacy.
That context is essential when approaching this collection. These aren’t just prints—they’re direct translations of Kelley’s material obsessions onto garments. The Hooded Sweatshirt and Sweatpant covered in an insane mosaic of collected objects, buttons, trinkets, and tchotchkes? That’s pulled straight from his accumulation-based “Memory Ware” works. The Camp Cap, covered in the same chaotic collage imagery, feels like wearing a museum piece on your head.
The Vans collaboration is where things get particularly interesting. Both the Half Cab and the Era come in two colorways each, built with premium suede, canvas uppers, leather lining and insoles, and the classic vulcanized waffle outsole. The custom heel label and embroidered logo tie everything back to the Supreme connection, but the real story is on the panels. Kelley’s densely layered artwork wraps around the uppers like a wearable still life—equal parts chaotic and considered.
Rounding out the collection are a short-sleeve shirt, a thermal, a ringer tee, two graphic tees, a Faribault Mills throw blanket, and two skateboards — all carrying various references to Kelley’s visual catalog, from the devil-faced thermal to the skull-and-clover imagery that runs through several pieces.
The Supreme x Mike Kelley Spring 2026 collection drops April 16th at Supreme locations and on the Supreme website (11am ET). Check out the lookbook and preview below.
Supreme x Mike Kelley Spring 2026 Collection
Release Date: April 16, 2026
