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Gallery Dept
GALLERY DEPT, THE VINTAGE REWORKED FROM LOS ANGELES WHICH IS WORTH ART
JOSUÉ THOMAS FOUNDED GALLERY DEPT IN LOS ANGELES IN 2016
Josué Thomas was born in Los Angeles to artist parents, grew up in the workshops, and was first a musician and painter. In 2016, he founded Gallery Dept — the art gallery and clothing department, with the same name — on a simple and radical idea: not to produce anything new. The brand collects jeans, t-shirts and vintage, jackets, washes them, cuts them, flares them, splashes them with paint, screen-prints them, and resells them as unique pieces. The slogan, “Art That Kills”, speaks of ambition: clothing that has the value of a work, because it has the process.
Success came through music. Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, LeBron James wore paint-stained flared jeans before fashion took hold; in 2021, Lanvin signs a collaboration with the brand which brings the reworked vintage into the oldest fashion house in Paris. The Beverly Boulevard boutique functions like an open workshop: you can see the pieces being made.
THE FLARE, SOUVENIR TEE, PAINT SPLATTER: THE CODES GALLERY DEPT
The flared jeans — LA Flare, Logan — is the founding piece: a Levi's or a Dickies vintage whose leg is open and patched at the bottom to form a bell, often splashed with white or colored paint. The T-shirt logo, in washed cotton, bears the brand name in gallery typography or the Souvenir, the “Los Angeles” postcard motif. The hoodies and sweats follow the same logic: a blank vintage, wash that washes it out, a screen print or embroidery applied by hand. Work caps and jackets complete the wardrobe. Each piece differs slightly from the next, and that's intentional.
HOW TO WEAR GALLERY DEPT
Flared jeans require a shoe that exists under the bell: a boot or a sneaker with a high sole, never a thin pair. The top remains simple – the t-shirt logo or a plain hoodie – because the strong piece is at the bottom. The register is that of California in the 70s passed through the filter of current rap: faded, stained, assumed.
GALLERY DEPT IN OUR STREETWEAR SELECTION
In our department streetwear, Gallery Dept is the brand closest to contemporary art, alongside DomRebel for handmade and Denim Tears for meaningful denim . Its jeans can be found in our pantsdepartment, its t-shirts in the t-shirtsdepartment. And since each piece is unique, the one you see will only exist once.
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