Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in New York in 1960, the son of a respectable accountant and a prestigious graphic designer. Already in his youth, he came into contact with the great city’s subculture.

Basquiat quickly left behind his roots in conceptual graffiti to exhibit in art galleries. Famous at 20, he revolutionised the New York art world in the eighties. He reached international fame thanks to powerful and expressive works that addressed themes like racism, politics, and social hypocrisy. Up today his work continues to have enormous influence.

Etnia Barcelona, having built its story through meditations on icons in the worlds of art and photography, takes on the maximum expression of the world of graffiti and street art with this collection, which also includes references to jazz, rap, punk, pop culture, and comics. Transferring them to an exclusive collection of sunglasses made up of three models displaying patterns constructed based on three original works by the artist that make eVach of the models in this capsule a unique piece, differentiated from the others, with a common denominator consisting of three vertices recalling the three points of his iconic crown, his artistic legacy.

Like the works of Basquiat, this collection transmits the transgressive, powerful, and emotional aspects of his work that made the artist one of the most important figures in the culture and art of today.