Palace x Dick Jewell Puts the Buffalo Era on a Woven Shirt

Dick Jewell started making mixed-media collage work in the 1980s, when London's Buffalo scene was producing some of the most aggressive visual culture the city had ever seen. Jamie Morgan was shooting. Ray Petri was styling. Jewell was cutting and reassembling imagery in ways that ended up defining the graphic language of an entire generation of British creatives. Palace, a brand that has always understood which references actually matter, just gave him a full capsule. The Palace x Dick Jewell collection drops May 15 at 11 AM BST as part of Summer 2026 Drop 2. It is not an anniversary release. It is an acknowledgment. ## Hoodies, Woven Shirts, and Graphic Tees in Collage Prints The capsule features Jewell's mixed-media artwork applied across hoodies, woven shirts, and graphic T-shirts. The prints are dense; layered photographic fragments combined with hand-drawn elements and text in the collage style Jewell has refined for four decades. These are not allover prints in the streetwear sense. They are compositions. Each piece carries a specific artwork rather than a repeating pattern. The woven shirts are the standout. The fabric weight has to support the print resolution without losing detail in the collage layers, and Palace has consistently delivered on this across previous artist collaborations with Juergen Teller and others. The construction on Palace woven shirts typically runs to a medium-weight cotton or cotton-blend with a camp collar, priced in the $140 to $180 range. ## "Pimlico Top Dog" Is the Exhibition, Not the Product The Instagram teaser captions reference "Pimlico Top Dog," which is the title of Jewell's associated exhibition or project, not a specific product SKU. The short film directed by Stuart Hammond and shot by Halfway Brooks accompanies the release with the same collage energy translated to motion. Palace frequently pairs capsule drops with short film content that contextualizes the collaboration beyond the garments. This is important because it signals that Palace is treating Jewell as an artist collaborator, not a print licensor. The distinction matters for how the pieces will be received. Artist capsules that include film, exhibition context, and biographical framing consistently perform better on resale than standard graphic collaborations. ## May 15. UK, EU, US, CA Online and In-Store. The drop schedule follows Palace's standard global rollout: Friday May 15 for UK, EU, US, and Canada both online and in-store, Saturday May 16 for Japan (online and in-store), Australia and New Zealand (online only), Korea and Hong Kong (in-store only). The staggered release means UK and US buyers get first access. Palace's Summer 2026 season has been running one of the strongest drop calendars in the brand's history. The Da Vinci Coded collection sold through in the first hour. The Shanghai flagship opening added a new regional retail footprint. This Dick Jewell capsule adds cultural weight to a season that has been commercially aggressive since May 1. Jewell is 60 years old. He has been making this work since before most of Palace's customer base was born. The collaboration is Palace saying that the references they have always drawn from deserve credit, not just citation.