Excerpt:
Banksy isn’t happy with Guess’ latest collaboration.
The legendary anonymous graffiti artist had a directive for his followers on Friday, encouraging them—possibly tongue in cheek, possibly not—to visit the Regent Street Guess store in London and steal the brand’s new collection that features his artwork.
“Attention all shoplifters. Please go to Guess on Regents Street. They’ve helped themselves to my artwork without asking, how can it be wrong for you to do the same to their clothes?”
Guess panicked and shut it all down. Brandalized, the graffiti commercializers, had a predictable shit take.
That myartbroker site is the weirdest thing I’ve seen today. Ending with a “no commercial use is allowed” banner but featuring many “buy Banksy” links intermixed with the article.
Almost as dumb as Brandalized’s reply to Banksy calling for a justified raid.
Adblockers are killing information industry profits. You can help.
I have an adblocker, they’re ads for the company themselves so they’re not being picked up by Ublock.