Menswear - Basquiat

The Inspiration

Jean-Michel Basquiat painted crowns on everything - on heads, on buildings, on words. I painted them on jacket backs.

This collection started with a question: what happens when street art meets tailoring? My answer is menswear I painted by hand - bold strokes on structured garments, beads I stitched into lapels, colour that refuses to stay inside the lines.

Construction and Technique

I showed it at Israeli Fashion Week 2020, in my second year at Shenkar. I built the collection from tailoring fabrics - wool, cotton shirting, canvas - then disrupted them with paint, beads, and raw edges. The silhouettes are menswear: oversized blazers, wide trousers, shirts with exaggerated proportions. But the surfaces are alive with Basquiat's energy - crowns, scrawls, primary colours crashing into each other.

I applied every painted detail by hand. I stitched every bead individually. The collection is a conversation between discipline and chaos - the precision of tailoring holding space for the wildness of paint.

Israeli Fashion Week 2020. Shenkar, 2nd year.