SUPREME SUMMER TEES DROP JUNE 25 EIGHT GRAPHICS
By Chief Editor | 6/22/2026
Supreme releases eight summer 2026 graphic tees on June 25, with designs from Lil B, Josh Smith, Sean Cliver, Myles Underwood, and a Paris Is Burning reference tee. US drops at 11 AM ET, Asia follows June 27. The batch is the third graphic tee drop of the SS26 season and the broadest in cultural scope, ranging from internet rapper to gallery painter to a 1990 NYC documentary.
Key Points
- Supreme drops eight summer graphic tees on June 25, 2026, with US release at 11 AM ET and Asia on June 27.
- The Paris Is Burning Tee references Jennie Livingston's 1990 documentary about NYC ball culture, predating Supreme by four years.
- Sean Cliver, a Powell Peralta illustrator since the late 1980s, remains one of Supreme's core creative collaborators in 2026.
$58 per tee. Eight versions. Drop at 11 AM Eastern on June 25, 2026. The window is five minutes if you are buying at retail, significantly longer if you are buying at resale within a week.
The more interesting fact is what Supreme put on them. This batch spans more cultural range than any summer tee drop in recent memory: Lil B, Josh Smith, Sean Cliver, Myles Underwood, and a reference tee for the Paris is Burning documentary. Five different sources from five different decades and disciplines, all ending up on a Supreme tee in the same June.
## Eight Tees. Five Sources. June 25.
Supreme's summer 2026 graphic tee batch lands eight designs on June 25 at 11 AM ET, with Asia following on June 27. The names are Based Tee, Speed Tee, Skunk Tee, FML Tee, Wish Tee, Supper Tee, Leash Tee, and Paris Is Burning Tee. Artwork credit goes to Lil B, Myles Underwood, Josh Smith, Sean Cliver, and the 1990 Jennie Livingston documentary Paris is Burning.
This is the third graphic tee drop of the SS26 season. [The SS26 opener in February launched seven designs at the Las Vegas Sphere campaign launch](/quick/supreme-drops-seven-opening-tees-february-2026-ss26-launch). [The April drop brought six more, including Lee Friedlander photography and punk graphic design from Jamie Reid](/quick/supreme-spring-2026-tees-friedlander-jamie-reid-art-dealer-april-9-f3k2m9xq). The summer batch adds eight, closing out the season with the widest source range of the three drops.
## Paris Is Burning Came Out in 1990. Supreme Was Founded in 1994.
The Paris is Burning Tee is the most loaded piece in the batch. Jennie Livingston's 1990 documentary follows New York City's ball culture, the drag and ballroom scene centered in Harlem during the late 1980s, and the community of Black and Latino LGBTQ performers who built it. It is a foundational document of NYC culture that predates Supreme by four years.
Supreme placing Paris is Burning on a tee in 2026 is a direct acknowledgment of the documentary's place in the lineage the brand draws from. The ball scene shaped the downtown New York aesthetic that Supreme grew out of. The vogueing and runway walks that Paris is Burning documented became foundational to how club culture, fashion posturing, and street performance developed through the 1990s. Supreme was absorbing all of that in real time on Lafayette Street.
The cultural connection runs through music as well. Paris is Burning's soundtrack and the ballroom culture it documented gave house and electronic music a visual language that persisted for decades. The tee puts Supreme in conversation with all of it, at $58.
## Sean Cliver Has Been Drawing for This Since Before Supreme Existed
Sean Cliver is one of the most prolific illustrators in skateboarding history. He started working for Powell Peralta in the late 1980s, producing board graphics for Tony Hawk and other riders, and has contributed artwork to Supreme since the brand's early years at 274 Lafayette Street. That Cliver still appears in Supreme drops in 2026 is a signal of how tightly the brand guards its original creative relationships.
[The Supreme x Mike Kelley collection from spring 2026 showed the same instinct](/quick/supreme-mike-kelley-vans-collection-spring-2026-t4m8k2p6): anchoring a contemporary drop in a figure from the overlapping art and skate world's history. Cliver is Supreme's equivalent of a house band. He was there before the hype arrived and he will be there after it settles.
Josh Smith occupies a different position in this batch. Smith is a contemporary painter whose text based canvases have been shown at Gagosian and Luhring Augustine. His work placing crude hand lettered words onto gestural painted grounds has made him one of the more actively debated figures in gallery painting. His presence on a Supreme tee signals that the brand is still reading current gallery culture, not just art history.
## $58 and the Research Goes Back to 1990
Supreme graphic tees are screenprinted on heavyweight cotton. The construction is standard for the price. The $58 is not a premium for the material. You are paying for the curation, which at its best is genuinely good editorial work and not brand licensing with a Supreme box logo placed on top.
This summer batch earns the editorial read. Lil B is the internet's most idiosyncratic rapper, a figure who built a genuine cult following through prolific lo fi output and a philosophy that defies summarization. Myles Underwood brings illustration from a younger generation of graphic artists working in the space between print and streetwear. Sean Cliver is the institution. Josh Smith is the gallery conversation. Paris is Burning is the archive.
Five positions on the cultural map, eight tees, one Thursday. Supreme has been running this model since the Lafayette Street store opened in 1994 and their Thursday drop system formalized in 2003. The summer batch is that model executed with the widest source range of the SS26 season.
Topics: supreme, graphic-tees, streetwear, fashion, sean-cliver, lil-b, paris-is-burning, josh-smith, summer-2026, drop