Shepard Fairey Plasters Times Square for Levi’s

If you didn’t venture to Times Square for Shepard Fairey’s Levi’s promotion last night, here’s what you missed. Inside a police barricaded corral, the fictionalizing street artist modeled a jacket from the collection and pasted up a mural celebrating the new corporate collaboration. Following the event, the poster collage was hung up outside the Levi’s store, also decked out with Fairey’s work, where it will remain through next Thursday.

Photos by Jacob Breinholt

Shepard Fairey Advertises Levi’s Sale Tonight

For people who enjoy watching paste dry, the truth-challenged street artist Shepard Fairey will be installing his work at the Levi’s store in Times Square to celebrate his cross-branding endeavor with the jeansmaker: a collection of pre-painted, shredded and patched apparel mimicking Fairey’s own dirty denim. Enticing street art fanboys to buy into the commercial collaboration, “a series of four new poster designs,” actually all old prints updated with the denim company’s bootstrap-pulling slogan “go forth,” will be given out with the purchase of a piece from the Obey x Levi’s collection. The installation begins at 7 PM tonight, followed by Shepard’s promotional poster signing.

Levi’s Releases T-Shirt for the Master Race

When it comes to Japan, even big brands like Levi’s can get away with shit they would never try in other countries like the U.S. or in this case, Germany. The mega-apparel company dropped this graphic tee, the latest release on behalf of its cool guy sub brand Fenom. While not an exact replica of the iconic logo made famous by a certain ruthless paramilitary group, the official product description doesn’t help their case.

Art Star Finds New Sources of Income

With the price of art falling hard, 35% percent in the first quarter of 2009, even art world heavyweights are looking for new sources of income. Nobody is buying multi-million dollar formaldehyde-soaked sharks or diamond-studded skulls any more, so Damien Hirst is back designing album art for The Hours, along with skateboard decks for Supreme, a book cover for Penguin Classic, and blue jeans for Levi’s. This of course on top of that £200 he managed to squeeze out of a teenage collage artist by threatening to sue for copyright infringement.

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