Akomplice

Akomplice was founded in 2002 in New York by Eddie Saiz and Felipe Saiz as a deliberately-political-commentary streetwear brand specifically focused on what the founders described as 'a deliberately-Latin-American-cultural-commentary streetwear vocabulary anchored to cross-cultural-political-and-social-commentary graphic design.' The brand has been one of the defining post-2002 NYC-anchored 'political-commentary streetwear' brands. The Akomplice vocabulary settled around several recurring elements: heavyweight cotton tees and hoodies with the brand's iconic Akomplice typography logo and shifting seasonal political-commentary graphic-design references, deconstructed denim and workwear-derived streetwear trousers, the brand's iconic Akomplice graphic-tee programme (anchored to deliberately-political-commentary references on broader American politics, environmental activism, and contemporary cultural-and-social-commentary), the long-running Akomplice × broader political-and-social-aesthetic collaboration capsules, and a colour palette anchored to washed-black, washed-navy, ecru, oxblood, plus the brand's recurring use of saturated red, electric-blue, butter-yellow, and the iconic 2000s-NYC-political-streetwear-aesthetic accent combinations. The brand is independent and held by the Saiz brothers. Akomplice operates a flagship retail concept in New York (the brand's home neighbourhood) plus international wholesale through Dover Street Market, HBX, Patta, Slam Jam Milan, the broader US-and-European streetwear specialty distribution network, and a substantial Japanese streetwear-specialty distribution. The brand has been one of the defining post-2002 NYC-anchored '2000s-political-commentary-streetwear' brands.