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Streetwear Brands With Iconic Logos, and What They Actually Mean

A streetwear logo does a job no fashion-house monogram has to do: it has to mean something to strangers at a distance.

The box: Supreme

A red rectangle and a word. The box logo works by refusing to explain itself: it borrowed conceptual art's deadpan and let scarcity supply the meaning.

The scrawl: Stussy

A signature, literally, the founder's surname in marker. It made the brand personal before "founder story" was a marketing term, and it has survived four decades because a signature cannot go out of style.

The astronaut: Billionaire Boys Club

The helmet and the wordmark carry the thesis, wealth as imagination rather than inheritance. It is aspiration drawn as a picture, which is why it reads on a kid and a collector alike.

The owl: OVO

Nocturnal, watchful, hometown-coded. The owl shows how a mark can build a world: one animal, one gold standard, a whole city attached.

The folded flag: Paper Planes

The Paper Planes logo is an American flag folded into a paper plane, and it carries the most literal meaning on this list: as big as the world is, it is still reachable.

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