Skilled skater Tyshawn Jones, who first got here on the scene as a pubescent preteen greater than a decade in the past, may not be the place he’s at this time, and definitely may not have turn into the well-known streetwear model Supreme’s first formally paid skater, if it weren’t for his mom.
Throughout a latest sitdown with Advanced Information’ Izzy Izzo, the 27-year-old skateboard star opened up about how his mom pushed him to strategy the style label and ask for what she believed he actually deserved.
“It’s, I assume, the way in which I used to be raised, I come from a household of hustlers,” the New York native started.
After he was initially signed by Supreme to put on the model’s garments and symbolize its picture, the corporate paid him $500 a month, or $6,000 a 12 months. His mom, after wanting into the corporate and studying it was price roughly $40 million on the time, urged him, a lot to his frustration then, to advocate for extra.
“I used to be making $500 a month, and that was $6,000 a 12 months. I used to be like 12 although,” he recalled. “And he or she was once like, she’d be on Google wanting up their internet price and stuff and she or he’d be like, ‘This n— price $40 million. He ain’t paying my son $500 a month. They making the most of you.’”
On the time, Jones mentioned he was hesitant to ask for extra as a result of, in his 11-year-old thoughts, he felt he nonetheless had a lot to show. Finally, when one other model approached him with a suggestion to pay him to put on their garments, he used that chance as leverage to begin the dialog.
“I used to be like, ‘Another person is providing me this. Do you guys pay folks?’ They usually had been like, ‘No, however like allow us to have a gathering and we’ll get again to you.’ So, I really feel like that actually like flipped a change,” he defined.
Jones finally signed what would turn into a 13-year take care of Supreme, sustaining a working relationship with the model for roughly 12 years as his skating profession continued to rise. Throughout that point, he additionally helped carry skate tradition additional into excessive trend, together with modeling campaigns for GAP and collaborations linked to Tiffany & Co.
The connection ended abruptly in 2024, when Supreme fired Jones after he appeared in a Marc Jacobs marketing campaign carrying a Superman sweater, citing what it described as a “materials non-curable breach” of contract.
A 12 months later, in Might 2025, Jones filed a $26 million lawsuit in opposition to Supreme alleging wrongful termination and defamation. Court docket paperwork have since revealed further explosive particulars concerning the dispute, together with that Jones was incomes roughly $83,333 per thirty days, or about $1 million yearly, underneath an exclusivity settlement that required him to put on Supreme from head to toe, together with his outerwear and underwear, HIGHSNOBIETY reported.
Within the swimsuit, Jones additionally alleges that following the break up, Supreme founder James Jebbia and others related to the model unfold claims that he had been “kicked off” the model for misconduct, one thing he says broken his popularity and harm his potential to safe new partnerships.
One other essential facet of the lawsuit facilities on inventory choices. Jones claims he misplaced them when he was fired shortly earlier than the corporate’s sale, which he alleges was timed to forestall these shares from vesting.
The lawsuit arrived simply months after Jones was named a “Good friend of the Home” at Louis Vuitton in February 2025 by fellow skateboarder and the model’s males’s inventive director Pharrell Williams.
