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? The answer is hand-painted menswear - bold strokes on structured garments, beadwork stitched into lapels, colour that refuses to stay inside the lines.

Construction and Technique

Shown at Israeli Fashion Week 2020 during my second year at Shenkar, the collection was built from tailoring fabrics - wool, cotton shirting, canvas - then disrupted 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.

Every painted detail applied by hand. Every bead stitched 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.