Supremacist

"Shapiro’s vision of materialist America is brutally honest, complex, and self-contradictory. He takes back the knife of consumerism and makes of it something wild and strange, imperfect, terrible, disturbing, unpredictable, mutable, at once lovely and unbearable. That’s why “Supremacist” is a far more nuanced and more effective response to materialism than any soup-can painting could ever be...It’s a sharp, candid portrait of the artist as a young man in twenty-first-century New York, and of the sick but also magical world in which he lives." -The New Yorker David and Camilla go on a trip to every Supreme store in the world. Supreme is a skateboarding-inspired men's clothing brand based in Manhattan. The trip is the subject of this book. David and Camilla are the protagonist and antagonist, respectively, of the book. Most of Supreme's stores are in Japan, so most of the book takes place in Japan.David goes on the trip to understand the meaning of Supreme, although he is aware that Su