Meet The Company Responsible For Some Of Fashion’s Biggest Collabs

Levied with the responsibility to both protect and monetize legendary estates for the likes of Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ai Weiwei and several other prominent artists, New York’s Artestar – who has affiliate offices in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Brazil, Benelux, Argentina, Israel, Australia, South Korea and Japan – is a name you should be familiar with. Responsible for some of the most noteworthy collaborations between the aforementioned artists and hype brands like COMME des GARCONS, Supreme and Raf Simons – the latter which recently dazzled crowds in Florence at Pitti Uomo – we reached out to Artetar President, David Stark, to see exactly how the process works when it comes to licensing artwork to brands for fashion purposes. Read more at Highsnobiety.