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Almost 25 Years Later, Supreme Is Still a Skate Shop

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On Tuesday night Supreme premiered "BLESSED", their second full-length skate video by William Strobeck. The film was a follow-up to 2014’s " cherry", and the spacious Village East Cinema on Second Avenue was packed. The crowd in the double-decker theater, made up of New York City skate locals, pros, artists, and pals of the brand, had a palpable energy. Strobeck has a reputation for holding his footage close to the chest before a video is released (he says he wants to create the vibe of getting a VHS tape in the mail), and true to form only a handful of people, excluding the skaters in the video, had seen what he has been working on for the past two and a half years. After taking the mic at the front of the theater, calling all the skaters up for thank-yous, and mentioning the lasting importance and memory of Dylan Rieder, a legendary skater and part of the Supreme family who passed away in 2016, the lights went down. Then, for the next hour and a half or so, the crowd lost its collect

Share: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share using Native tools Share Copied to clipboard On Tuesday night Supreme premiered “BLESSED” , their second full-length skate video by William Strobeck. The film was a follow-up to 2014’s “ cherry” , and the spacious Village East Cinema on Second Avenue was packed. The crowd in the double-decker theater, made up of New York City skate locals, pros, artists, and pals of the brand, had a palpable energy. Strobeck has a reputation for holding his footage close to the chest before

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