From the beginning, Berlin-based designer Judith Bondy has placed great value on the exchange and cooperation with other artists in order to develop joint collection parts. Through these collaborations, new inspirations flow into the design language and the creative process and are subject to constant change. In the current METANOIA collection, which she presented in September 2022 as part of Berlin Fashion Week, she worked together with the digital artist 11v151131_m06.Since 2012 11v151131_m06's research has focused on computer-generated images. 11v151131_M06 has collaborated with artists such as Pauline Oliveros, John Zorn, Yoshida Tatsuya and William Winant. He is currently researching concepts surrounding ancient futurism and the occult using artificial intelligence technology. His dark aesthetics and interest in fashion can be found in BONDY's collections, making him the ideal collaboration partner.BONDY stands for unique fashion with no limits. To test and push the boundaries of couture, the label turns to streetwear this year.For Berlin Fashion Week 2023, Bondy teamed up with OBEY, we made our Space in Berlin available as a presentation area.https://bondy.shophttps://www.instagram.com/judithbondy/https://www.instagram.com/11v151131_m06/  

WE HAD A LITTLE FRIENDS & FAMILY GET TOGETHER DURING FASHION WEEK AT CHEZ FRANCIS. WE ALSO MADE SOME COOL MERCHANDISE FOR THEM. GO AND VISIT THEM IF YOU HAVE THE CHANCE!WHILE IN PARIS, WE ALSO HAD A WALK AROUND TO VIEW SOME PIECES BY SHEPARD FAIREY. PARIS IS FULL OF GREAT ART ON THE STREETS AND SHEPARD CREATED SOME BEAUTIFUL MURALS, BUT ALSO SOME SNEAKY ICON FACES.

We've dropped a new OBEY Amsterdam Collection. If you are around, drop by. Limited supply and only available in our Amsterdam store.  

Texas is a self-taught, Amsterdam photographer. She photographs things as they are, with returning themes like her friends, bands and places she loves to visit. For this show, Texas selected work of her favourite places.@Texasschiffmacher@Obeyartspace

RISIKO is an independent magazine that promotes contemporary German underground and alternative music. First published in 2021, the Berlin-based magazine attracted a loyal readership in cities all over the world. One of those cities is Hamburg, which also deals as the main topic for their newest issue that features interviews and articles about the legendary music scene of Germany’s most famous harbor city.Accompanying the release Obey Art Space Berlin and Risiko combined forces for a launch event of Risiko’s third issue “Hamburg“.Photos by Ilya Nikitin (@il_juha)More information: www.instagram.com/risikomagazine

FANTASIA-PROPAGANDA A TALE OF SURVEILLANCE AND PROPAGANDA WITHIN A FANTASY UNIVERSE“…Within the Realms of Magicka, a strong city stands. Its leaders once governed sanely, but with expansion came petty ideas. The ill-intended Wizard King and his Cabal of Giants used their occult tools to control thew population. To assert to such power they erected banners all over the land allowing their sorcerers to see, records and control. Powerful runes bearing remarkable magic powers have been carefully crafted within the underworld to dispel these malevolent marks performed by the Giant’s Cabal…“Thursday, the 27th of October, saw the release of OBEY’s newest collaboration in partnership with Berlin-based brand Healing Tales at the OBEY Art Space in Berlin.Founded in 2018, Healing Tales stands for the awakening of the fantasy universe. They produce clothing and accessories, as well as magazines, novels and many more while maximizing on quality, making their productions particularly limited. They take inspiration from both fictional tales and real-world historical archives.Healing Tales believes that the fantasy universe is the ultimate outlet for human imagination, spanning all time periods, histories, planets and galaxies.OBEY has now partnered with Healing Tales on a collection including OBEY Hardwork Denim Jeans with special hand-stitched runes to protect you from bad spells, a t-shirt, a Big Boy Web Belt featuring the the two brands’ combined logos and a special tote bag. www.healingtales.frPhotocredit: Ilya Nikitin @il_juha

A few weeks ago, we enjoyed an afternoon and evening full of great fights, amazing bands, and awesome DJ’s with our friends from Boogieland.We love Boogieland! They are an incredible boxing club in Amsterdam North that opens the doors to the fascinating world of real kickboxing and boxing, while creating a welcoming and inclusive space for all  who are interested. Boogieland creates a great atmosphere while providing challenging training for their fighters.All of the fights were full of fire and passion and professionally supervised. The event was a great time for everyone, and the fighters were welcomed like superstars.In the evening, the party erupted with bands like Bong Lord, Wodan Boys and excellent songs mixed by Mr. Wix, among others. We at OBEY contributed to this event by sponsoring Boogieland tees. Together we created an original design that we were proud to see on the backs of the heroes that night. Boogieland WebsiteBoogieland Instagram

 On the 8th of October, OBEY and Wallstreet threw a party and best trick contest at Bow Down Studio in Biarritz to celebrate their collaboration with the well-known French skateshop, Wallstreet. A range of music artists from various genres were invited to play. The lineup included Double Cheese (garage) and Romsii x Sauvageon(rap) as well as our Biarritz based DJ's Dpraya and VX2Neil.  WALLSTREET and OBEY came together to create a capsule collection with the French artist Mouts, who designed special artworks on each garment. The capsule included a t-shirt, a hoodie, pants and a skateboard. Wallstreet Skateshop was founded in 1998 and is one of the finest skate shops in Europe. Their main store is in Lyon and opened a second branch a few years ago in Biarritz. @wallstreetskateshop@wallstreetskateshop_biarritz

Philipp GladsomeBorn and raised in Chemnitz; now living in Berlin; photographer Philipp Gladsome started his artistic career over ten years ago. He combined his enthusiasm for analog photography with his passion for music to document not only the national, but international music and fashion scene ever since. For Holiday ’22 Philipp did the shooting for OBEY’s Shepard Fairey Collection at the OBEY ART SPACE Berlin. @philipp_gladsomewww.gladsome.de 

We were super excited to work on a collaborative shirt to support the tour. We worked with Anaiah from Zulu and artist Nina Buxenbaum to create something special. Here’s what Nina had to say about her work. “We view the Baobab tree as a connection to our African ancestors, healing our relationship to nature and agriculture as a path towards healing our ancestral trauma. The flowers are from the African yam plant and the  American sweet potato plants. These plants are a staple of African and African American cultural cuisine. Plants are our medicine, and learning to grow food in a sustainable way, meeting the needs of our Mother Earth, will lead us to healing and self-efficacy.“ Make sure to support Zulu on tour in your town soon and if you missed the recent shows, we have a few shirts for sale on our site while supplies last. A portion of the sales will be donated to the Black led organizations of @blackpowerviolence choice. 

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The New Originals & OBEY join forces on this collaboration and present the uniform of The Army of Love.  The Army of Love fights against all forms of oppression as we stand together and join hands to spread the ubiquitous message of love. We stand with all forms of emancipation and aim to empower those in their fight for equity, love and justice. The collection is exclusively available through The New Originals and OBEY flagship and online stores. Join the Army of Love. Photography: Texas Schiffmacher https://www.instagram.com/texasschiffmacher/Creative direction: Glenn ‘Yung Nnelg’ Ascencion https://www.instagram.com/yungnnelg/THE NEW ORIGINALS

In 2017, Shepard worked with Aaron Huey of Amplifier Art and several artists for a series called ‘WE THE PEOPLE’; an effort to champion appreciation for ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity. On inauguration day, people across the capital carried ‘WE THE PEOPLE’ posters into the streets, hung them up in windows and pasted them on walls. We continued to see this movement throughout several other rallies around the world that year, including the Women’s March in 2017. In 2022, we still have to march for equal rights for all women.  On March 5th, there will be a Women’s March in Amsterdam. Inspired by the project Amplifier did with Shepard, we contacted Sioejeng, a local artist and fighter for women’s rights to create an illustration. This is our contribution to this very important march and its message. We have printed many copies of Sioejeng’s poster and you are invited to pick one up in our store, or download a high-res version on our website. Studio Number One also provided a graphic to empower the message of equal rights for women.   Bring your copy of Sioejeng’s print to the march in Amsterdam or in your town. Put it up in the window or paste them on walls. Take this art in your hands, and start now! For more information about the march, please visit womensmarchnederland @womensmarchnederland@seeyousioe@Amplifier@Obeygiant @StudionumberoneDOWNLOAD THE IMAGE HERE:

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FRANKIE PEREZ is a New York & Montreal based artist whose visual identity is informed by his background as a world class breakdancer. Both his photography and films carry a sense of motion while exploring fashion in a raw, youthful, and energetic style. His work has been featured in The New York Times, i-D, DAZED, The Face magazine, & Creative Review while also being commissioned by clients such as Converse, Maison Margiela, Reebok, Depop, VANS, Farfetch, Obey, & V Files. Currently Frankie has just self published his 1st photography book entitled “See Me Up? It’s ‘Cause I’ve Been Down” which is centered around the dance culture he grew up in.    "The lamppost images were inspired by “Gone Missing” or “For Rent” signs one might come across while walking in the street. I had the intention of contrasting the mundane with the unusual or exciting by inserting what I thought would be out of the ordinary imagery into these everyday locations. I purposely wanted to do a few on streets where one might not expect to see an ad so that when I left the printed images on each of the lampposts it would unexpectedly add value to someone’s day because they ingested a different type of image that they may not be used to."- Frankie Perez      OBEY FALL 21 EDITORIAL BY FRANKIE PEREZ 

This month we are hosting the first show in our brand new Artspace in the Amsterdam Store. For this project we worked together with Patty Morgan who did a great job curating this art show with the works of 25 artists. Patty Morgan is an online platform that offers art pieces from progressive creators. To create a bigger audience for the amazing work in Patty Morgan’s collection, we teamed up using OBEY deadstock for upcycling and created a wearable art web shop, with the works and details from the 25 awesome artists, named the ‘BODYSHOP’. If you were able to get your hands on one of the unique items you can actually wear their web shop. There are only a few items left, so please check www.pattymorgan.net to see what’s still available. The art show is up till August 30. So please come and experience the works and our OBEY Artspace. @obeyartspace@patty_morganwww.pattymorgan.net 

We sat down with OBEY founder Shepard Fairey to discuss his graphics for the Fall 2021 season. In these videos we highlight four graphics, focusing on their origin's as fine art and their adaptation onto t-shirts.  TUNNEL VISION  RAISE THE LEVEL  LOTUS ANGEL  ENDLESS POWER

For our second OBEY flagship store in Amsterdam all our furniture was designed by Amsterdam based design agency Studio Appelo and made by self-employed, young and Amsterdam based creatives.  The shelves, signs, checkout and modular furniture are made by ‘Wellwellwell’, a company started because of the Corona crisis. Colin started ‘Wellwellwell’ together with Lorenzo Pinto. Colin is the owner of the bar, club and skatepark ‘Skatecafe’ in Amsterdam Noord. His friend and co-owner of Skatecafe Hugo de Jonge, worked there as a chef. Because they had to close down for several months, they started building furniture in their workshop behind the bar. Colin and Hugo both knew their way around with a welder and started to take orders. The OBEY shop was their first big order. For the modular furniture they asked their friend Eva to sculpt the top part of the metal boxes. Eva is a fine arts graduate, with Sculpture as her specialty. She made the sculptures all by hand. And gives the furniture a really nice, handmade look. Please go and have a look in our store and see what we are proud of. Come hang out, check the new collection and some cool Shepard art. https://www.instagram.com/studio_appelo/https://www.instagram.com/wellwellwell.nl/https://www.instagram.com/evavanessen/ 

We are proud to announce that OBEY Amsterdam, our second flagship store,is now open! Due to regulations we can only have a limited amount of customers in store and had to postpone an official opening event, but we are hoping to celebrate with all of you soon.Please follow @obeyamsterdam for updates on the collection,special releases, future events and more. OBEY AmsterdamRunstraat 251016 GJ Amsterdam

The brand “Rusmin” was founded in March 2019, by young entrepreneur and all-round creative Rubi Pigeon. The mission statement of the 23-year-old Franco-Brazilian “to create and promote eco-friendly clothing via up cycling, what someone else disregards can be a treasure”. She does this by gathering past collections from various brands then transforming them into unique new pieces; deconstructing and reconstructing the amassed garments by her own special skill set. With her unique designs, she refreshes and transforms the garments into a fresh vibrant new look. Please check out Rubi’s Youtube channel (RUSMIN) where you can pick up tips on up cycling, DIY and lifestyle trends. Follow her as she designs, creates and roams the vintage shops of Paris. Rubi was quick to realize that the overconsumption culture we live in is having a detrimental impact on the environment and our future. She demonstrates to both younger and older generations how easy and fun it can be to reuse garments; instead of constantly buying new and discarding your wardrobe. The OBEY team fell in love with her enthusiasm and abilitiy to create unique pieces which really transforms an item into something completely new and eye catching. OBEY continues to be committed to reducing its environmental footprint wherever possible, from sourcing sustainable materials to monitoring responsible manufacturing procedures. Reducing our carbon footprint is an ongoing mission but we’re up for the challenge, striving to constantly learn, improve and educate along the way. Rubi is an inspiration for us all and we are proud to have had the opportunity to collaborate with her. She shifted through the unsold items from our past collections, made her selection of 8 styles, and quickly began creating magic with her team. The collection includes such styles as shorts, rompers, and crop tops. The Rusmin items will be on pre-sale on our website on the 11th of May. The pieces are very limited, so stay tuned, you won’t want to miss out!   Links: Rusmin Youtube ChannelRusmin IGRubi Pigeon IGObey Clothing Paris IGObey Clothing Online Shop