Black artist Gianni Lee, who collaborated with Levi’s for a limited-edition assortment in February, has created a brand new one-of-a-kind jean that shall be offered for charity.
The lads’s dimension 34 pant will profit Good Black Artwork, a worldwide platform centered round essentially the most promising rising Black artists.
The jean was lower and sewn at Lee’s studio in New York and is the primary jean he has ever made. It’s embroidered back and front along with his signature skeleton motif and is impressed by his road artwork seen in Paris, London, Bulgaria, New York Metropolis, Cuba, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. It has multi-color paint splatters on the entrance left leg, white trim alongside the waistband, a Gianni Lee Studio leather-based again patch and a painted blue ribbon hooked up to one of many belt loops.
Gianni Lee Studio jean
The jean shall be obtainable on the market on the livestream buying app NTWRK beginning on Dec. 9 and can price $500.
The sale is sponsored by American Specific and Miami Artwork Week and contains glassware, a shawl and blended media items by two different artists, Adrian Brandon and Sabrena Khadija. A $55 aluminum skeleton-print card case by Lee can even be provided. The fundraiser is a results of partnership Amex has with NTWRK.
“The idea of the challenge was to dive right into a medium that [artists] don’t usually dive into. For me that was style and the development and manufacturing of denim. I by no means did it alone and that is my first whole deep dive into denim manufacturing,” Lee informed Rivet. “Working with American Specific on this challenge a lightbulb went off in my head and it was much more serendipitous as a result of whenever you consider American Specific you consider enterprise or finance and, go determine, a enterprise and finance establishment pushed me right into a inventive realm that I normally received’t dive into.”
Lee added that he has all the time regarded as much as Nigo of A Bathing Ape and “the denim empires in Japan.”
“What I take pleasure in in regards to the course of on the whole is the method of creation and attempting new issues like speaking to a manufacturing home, a dyer and a sewer. It was a protracted course of to deliver the denims to life,” he stated. “Now I’ve discovered a brand new enterprise and business. And who is aware of? Perhaps from this second I’ll wish to proceed to work with different manufacturers and leap into my very own disciplines and make extra denim. This was a tremendous launching pad for me.”
Along with his Levi’s collaboration that features custom-made 501s, Trucker jackets and tote luggage, Lee, who can be a musician, sells handpainted Ugg boots and unique print “Black Hero” tees and totes on his on-line retailer.
Lee was additionally related to Levi’s when he carried out at a celebration celebrating the launch of Levi’s XX Chino at Levi’s Haus Miami in January 2020.