Sean Pablo is stressed. The 25-year-old Supreme skater not too long ago moved residence, again into his teenage bed room in Los Angeles, as a result of he needed to flee New York. After we communicate in early March, he’s chilling someplace in Florida, as a result of he already needed to flee LA. Professional skaters are nomadic by commerce, and Pablo’s been bouncing forwards and backwards between the 2 coasts since he was 14. He’s able to see one thing new and bizarre for as soon as.
“I all the time knew that I needed to get the fuck out of there,” he tells me by cellphone, referring to the LA neighborhood the place he grew up. And though he’s again for now, that’s additionally very a lot topic to vary. “I need to transfer right down to Miami or one thing as a result of, I don’t know, LA and New York, it’s simply an excessive amount of of the identical concepts being circulated round. All people’s simply form of circlejerking one another.”
It’s been virtually 9 years to the day for the reason that 2014 Supreme video “Cherry” despatched a then-14-year-old Pablo on his technique to pro-skater superstardom. Talking to GQ again in 2020, Pablo’s pal Chloë Sevigny positioned him within the custom of good-looking, fashionable skate boarders whose charisma elevates them past the game: “Folks simply crush out on them,” she stated. “There’s a thriller and a nuance, and clearly the wonder is fascinating as properly.”
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Whereas he’s nonetheless the dreamiest dude on the Supreme group, Pablo is now at a crossroads. In an interview revealed in 032c magazine this week, he detailed his traumatic restoration from a tibia-shattering street-skating accident final summer time. He had already sustained accidents in an earlier incident that ultimately led him—guided by his good friend, the filmmaker Concord Korine—to hunt remedy for abusing painkillers. “The trail to paradise begins in hell,” the well-known Dante Alighieri adage, has turn into Pablo’s new mantra. This is sensible for a lot of causes, the least consequential of them being that his almost eight-year-old streetwear model—which he co-designs together with his dad—additionally simply so occurs to be known as Paradise.
Within the latest Paradise NYC collection, which drops on-line this week, the group riffs on a lot of the identical deep-fried symbolism that they’ve prior to now: screwy Disney characters, Catholic iconography, numerous New York-centric emblems. However this time, it’s all a bit extra…Paradise Misplaced. There’s a hoodie that includes a halo-wearing Mickey Mouse giving the finger. (In any case, Disney, billed because the happiest place on Earth, could be a actual nightmare.) A pair of sweatpants are printed with photos of Virgin Mary statuettes weeping blood. One other tee, adorned with a cutesy Bambi illustration and the phrases “FUCK EVERYTHING,” is a riff on a earlier model that stated “HAPPY EVERYTHING.”
The designs, Pablo admits, are form of shitpost-y. “The Jurassic Christ one is form of my favourite,” he laughs. “I believe all people needs to make one thing that’s simply purely authentic, and I need to play with that concept a bit bit and simply poke holes in it, you understand what I imply? It’s virtually like folks is perhaps like, ‘Is he silly? Does he not perceive that’s only a full ripoff?’ And in order that’s form of a bit joke, I suppose.”
