Global accessories brand, Sprayground, blends artwork with fashion in a new limited collaboration with one of the world’s largest and finest art museums, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET). Combining artworks from The Met Collection into wearable masterpieces, Sprayground’s limited edition collaboration includes a 17-piece capsule only available at The Met Store and online at store.metmuseum.org.
Inspired by works of art spanning 5,000 years, the exclusive collection features an array of stunning designs of from around the globe in The Met collection. Collection highlights include Chinese Landscape Backpack which borrows motifs from a late 17th-century Jingdezhen vase, Kuba Kingdom Headdress Backpack based on a 19th-20th century beaded mpaan crafted in the Kuba Kingdom (present-day Democratic Republic of Congo), and Greek Temple of Sardis Column Backpack which recalls a monumental foliate carved column ca. 300 BCE. Spanning The Met’s 19 curatorial departments.
The collection features several other pieces in a range of media expertly translated into fashion-forward accessory designs. Each piece includes a special tag, hang tag, and a plaque, inspired by the plaques seen in museums, complete with a QR code, providing detailed information about the bag and its relationship to the original artwork that inspired its design. This innovative approach allows customers to delve deeper into the history that inspired their Sprayground backpack, creating a personal connection to the art.
Shot at The Met, the capsule collection is featured in Sprayground’s latest marketing campaign. Each bag is a limited edition, ensuring these unique creations will never be produced again.
The collection is exclusively available at The Met Store and online at store.metmuseum.org starting today, followed by a wider release on the Sprayground website on August 11.
ABOUT SPRAYGROUND
Sprayground’s journey as a pioneer in the world of travel fashion is marked by its iconic designs that have gained global recognition. Founded by the celebrity designer DBD, the brand emerged as a dynamic force, irrevocably altering the landscape with its debut backpack “Hello My Name Is”, a cornerstone that evolved over 14 years to signify not just individuality and innovation but a revolution in self-expression. Sprayground’s art is meant to tell a story, through inspiration, pop-culture, details, color and thought-provoking concepts that push the limit in design and fashion. A bag is meant to be thrown around and worn thru the life of people’s daily adventures. Quality, Function, Design and Longevity is the foundation for Sprayground.
ABOUT THE MET
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens—businessmen and financiers as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day—who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. Today, The Met displays tens of thousands of objects covering 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online. Since its founding, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. Every day, art comes alive in the Museum’s galleries and through its exhibitions and events, revealing both new ideas and unexpected connections across time and across cultures.
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Source: The MET, Sprayground
