SPACEBRAT JOINS DENIM TEARS' FALL WINTER 26 SEASON

Spacebrat, the name Jasmine Monsegue paints under, is now a credited collaborator on Denim Tears Fall/Winter 2026, a season the brand named for André Leon Talley and has been releasing in drops since 14 August. Denim Tears lists her as a multidisciplinary artist and designer born in Texas in 1994 and based in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, and says the collaboration is available now at DENIMTEARSDOTCOM, at African Diaspora Goods on 176 Spring Street in New York and at the Lenox Square residency in Atlanta.

The thesis is simple: Denim Tears is running this season the way a gallery runs a program, with a named maker for each chapter, and Monsegue is the latest name added to it.

Airbrush, Houston and a Gallery on La Brea

Monsegue's airbrush paintings explore womanhood and identity, shaped by her Caribbean heritage and the American South she grew up in, according to Denim Tears. Houston is where coverage places her upbringing, and for years she worked under the Spacebrat name that Denim Tears uses to credit her.

Her first Los Angeles solo show, Everything That Glitters, ran at CONTROL Gallery at 434 North La Brea Avenue from 15 February to 29 March 2025. The medium list for that show is not what most people expect from a fashion collaborator: several works are listed as acrylic on synthetic hair, and a 2023 piece, American Dream, is listed as airbrush on canvas.

It's Nice That ran an interview with her about the effect of airbrush under the headline "When all the information's there, it's not as fun", which is the closest thing on the record to a stated method.

Five Drops, One Estate and a Roll Call

Denim Tears named the season for Talley on 4 August and set five drops starting 14 August, with credits for Edward Buchanan, Andre Walker, Ashantea Austin and Yattabombata. That made it the fourth named Denim Tears chapter since June, after two Cotton Wreath drops and a Kitty Cash gallery installation at the SoHo store. The first drop on 14 August at 11am EST was a 153 piece collection built as the first apparel line the Talley Estate has authorized, with metallic denim, PrimaLoft puffers and leather workwear sold online, in SoHo and in Atlanta. Hypebeast's report on the collection lists Spacebrat alongside the Talley Estate, new Stüssy Tears and Billionaire Boys Club pieces and customized NAACP shirts.

Each drop since then has added a name or a venue. Drop Two was a brown BBC knit, striped trousers, wreath outerwear and a leopard pattern. Drop Three went on sale on Friday 2 October at 11am EST, four weeks after Drop Two. Stüssy Tears followed on 16 October through Chapter stores.

Frank Ocean, SCAD and the Pattern Under the Pattern

The credit line has not stayed inside clothing, or inside one season. On 12 June the brand's Cotton Wreath bags moved its signature diaspora motif from apparel into leather and canvas accessories, sold online and at African Diaspora Goods in SoHo, so the habit of crossing categories predates Talley. In September Denim Tears scored its fragrance film with Frank Ocean, and at SCAD it put its references on a wall in an exhibition. Music in September, a university gallery that same month, a painter in November: the brand keeps moving between rooms rather than staying on a rack.

That is the argument for Monsegue's place in the season. A season named for Talley, the late Vogue creative director, has credited named makers from its first drop, and an artist whose listed media include airbrush on canvas and acrylic on synthetic hair sits at the gallery end of that range.

What Denim Tears Has Not Said

The counterpoint is real. Denim Tears' release details do not list which pieces carry Monsegue's work, so the collaboration cannot yet be sized in garments, and the Hypebeast report names her without saying what she contributed. A credited name is a signal, not a product list.

What is fixed is the where. The Spacebrat work sits in the same three places as the rest of the season: DENIMTEARSDOTCOM, 176 Spring Street and Lenox Square in Atlanta, the residency beside Neiman Marcus. Five drops, three addresses and one more credited name than the roll call had on 4 August.