Sandro Paris rolls out a high-end capsule collection that pays homage to Bob Marley
Paris-based trendy-casual brand Sandro, which has a long history of mining the music world for its capsule collections — think David Bowie, the Stone Roses, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, New Order and Joy Division — has licensed the name and likeness of reggae legend Bob Marley for a quartet of spring and summer 2018 men’s pieces. This new collection, which dropped Wednesday, is just in time for music festival season.
Pieces include a green, yellow and red-striped cotton T-shirt with Marley’s name in black flocking above the late musician’s likeness ($100); a black T-shirt with his name in white flocking above a similar illustration ($100); and a white linen tee ($130) screen-printed with “Exodus — Bob Marley & the Wailers” — a reference to the group’s 1977 album (and, as Marley fans will no doubt notice immediately, it’s in the same typeface as the words appear on the album’s cover).
Rounding out the range is a black cotton hoodie ($220) with flocked “Tuff Gong” lettering on the front and back along with the Marley illustration. (Tuff Gong was the record label founded in 1970 by Bob Marley & the Wailers and long associated with Marley’s music.)
The capsule collection is available now at us.sandro-paris.com as well as the brand’s bricks-and-mortar boutiques that stock the men’s collection — including the Beverly Center and Beverly Drive locations locally.
The Sandro Paris capsule collaboration is the latest licensing deal involving the reggae singer, who passed away in 1981.
In 2016, on what would have been his 71st birthday, Marley Natural, a partnership between Seattle-based Privateer Holdings and the Marley family, rolled out a high-end line of skin-care products, smoking accessories and four strains of cannabis flower. A year later, Marley Natural tapped L.A.-based graphic artist Neville Garrick, who had designed several album covers for Marley & the Wailers (including the above-mentioned “Exodus” cover) to design labels for limited-edition jars of cannabis.
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