In March 2025, Supreme did the thing it does best: it took an artist with a cult following and a difficult reputation and turned the deep-cut iconography into a collection that sold out in minutes. The artist this time was Aphex Twin, which on paper is a strange fit and in practice made perfect sense. Both built their names on being cryptic, a little hostile, and very good at using a logo as a weapon.
The drop is over now. What is left is the story of what was on it, and a healthy resale market. Both are worth a look.
Who Aphex Twin is
Richard D. James, born in Cornwall in 1971, has spent close to four decades making electronic music that refuses to sit still. His 1992 debut, Selected Ambient Works 85-92, is still treated as a turning point for the genre, and the run that followed (Selected Ambient Works Volume II, …I Care Because You Do, the Richard D. James Album, Drukqs) moved between ambient calm and frenzied, custom-built noise without apology. Just as important to this collaboration is the visual side. Many of Aphex Twin's most famous images came from director Chris Cunningham, whose work on the "Come to Daddy" and "Windowlicker" videos turned James into a face people recognize even if they have never knowingly heard a track.
That face, and that catalog of artwork, is the raw material Supreme pulled from.
The artwork, piece by piece
This is where the collection earned its keep, and where the original announcements waved their hands. The graphics were not generic Aphex branding. They were specific, and they came from specific records and videos.
- The campaign started in late February with a single T-shirt carrying Cunningham's "Windowlicker" artwork, with a handwritten, gleefully profane note from James on the back daring Supreme to bring the acid. Pure troll, on brand for both sides.
- The flagship Reversible GORE-TEX Hooded Jacket carries the menacing grin from the Richard D. James Album, splashed across the front and back. The same grin turns up on the Mechanix Work Gloves and a hooded sweatshirt.
- A sweatshirt pulls from "Donkey Rhubarb," with the track name in cursive on the front and, on the back, the neon teddy-bear-suited creatures wearing James's face from the …I Care Because You Do era.
- A clean black tee runs the Aphex Twin logo, the circle with the warped A, over the words Selected Ambient Works 85-92.
If you know the records, the collection reads like a greatest-hits of unsettling visuals. If you do not, it still looks like nothing else on a rack.
The full collection and what it cost
Beyond the headline jacket, the lineup ran deep: an Alpha Industries Cargo Jacket and matching Cargo Pant, a Sweater, Shirt, Thermal, Football Jersey, Hooded Sweatshirt, a Short, two T-Shirts, a 6-Panel cap, the Mechanix Work Gloves, a Mantis Coin Knife, and four skateboards (three sold as a set, one on its own). The knife and the boards are the kind of oddball accessories Supreme and Aphex fans both collect.
Retail prices landed where you would expect for Supreme:
- Reversible GORE-TEX Hooded Jacket: $598
- Shirt: $198
- Thermal: $148
- 6-Panel cap: $60
- Selected Ambient Works tee: $54
Where it stands now
Supreme drops do not linger, and this one was no exception. It sold out globally on release day, March 6, 2025, with an Asia release following on March 8. Today the collection lives on resale: StockX, Grailed, eBay, GOAT. The GORE-TEX jacket has traded above its $598 retail, with the black version sitting in the high $600s and the louder multicolor version carrying asks higher still. The tees and accessories are more attainable, but the markup is the price of missing the drop.
The point
Supreme has built collections around musicians before, from Neil Young to The Velvet Underground to Massive Attack, and it had nodded at this world once already with a 2018 Cunningham tee using stills from Rubber Johnny. The Aphex collection went further because the source material was so strong: decades of imagery built specifically to disturb, handed to a brand that knows how to put a disturbing image on a jacket people will line up to buy.
Supreme paired the collection with a line James gave Pitchfork back in 2014: "It is all about sound, but people forget that." Funny, coming from a clothing drop. But the collection worked precisely because it understood the visual half of Aphex Twin as well as the audio, and made something you could wear without explaining.
The drop is gone. The records are still right where you left them.
See the collection on Supreme's site → | Aphex Twin on Warp →
