London’s Dover Street Market has handed its basement kiosk and part of its ground floor to Osaka graphic artist Verdy for a three-week Gift Shop takeover, running until August 27th with exclusive Thursday drops.
Products include DSM-only Vick-print tees, a sofa-sized Visty plush, and limited pieces from Girls Don’t Cry, Wasted Youth, Capitana, and Verdy and Friends are available in store and online.
Verdy, known for turning personal passions into cult merchandise, rose from self-published zines to collaborations with Nike, Levi’s, and McDonald’s China, plus stage visuals for Blackpink and a creative-director role at ComplexCon.
Drop 2 (August 14th) brings a soft-vinyl Visty in a DSM tee, a three-way New Balance sneaker, and Beats by Dre speaker holders. Drop 3 (August 21st) delivers reworked vintage Nike football jerseys and a final collectible wave. In-store first, then online if stock remains.
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About the artist
Born in 1987 in Osaka Prefecture, VERDY first moved to Tokyo in 2012 and worked as part of the illustrator and graphic design group VK DESIGN WORKS. Today, he is an absolutely essential graphic artist to Tokyo’s street scene, with the tremendous popularity of his two main projects “Girls Don’t Cry” and “Wasted Youth” spreading his name all over the world. Since 2018 he has been producing paintings and sculptures.
2021 HealingxHealing, Kaikai Kiki Gallery (Tokyo)
2021 VERDY’S GIFT SHOP, Isetan space (Tokyo)
