LUNAR YEAR OF THE SNAKE GUEST ARTISTS
Within the Lunar Year of the Snake 2025 collection, Maharishi releases a series of organic T-Shirts & Sweats, including guest artist collaborations with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kay One, KEO XMEN, TEACH and Toby Ziegler.


TEACH
Teach was born in London and began his graffiti career at the age of 15. Inspired by early graffiti writers, he became one of the few members of the 'Kings of the London Underground' by the mid 1990s, with his tag ubiquitous across the city. He is also a central figure of the infamous Diabolical Dubstars crew.
The transgressive quality of his background in artistic vandalism still informs his practice today - using and altering found objects and subverting familiar narratives as well as his own biographical material. His work has influenced a whole generation of younger writers from his ethos on the culture to his hand style, throw-up’s, trains and consistency.
His work as an artist and designer ranges from hand-crafted studio pieces and luxury tableware to large scale installations and rust paintings seen at the 56th Venice Biennale. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including MoMA New York, V1 Contemporary Art Centre in Copenhagen and Design Museum London.


Tarzan, 1994


Yeah’z Oxtail Spray, 2021


Die For The Rest Of Your Life, 2016


JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
Jean-Michel Basquiat is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His career spanned the late 1970s through to his death in 1988, at the age of 27.
Basquiat works are raw, and through a bold sense of color and composition, he maintains a fine balance between seemingly contradictory forces such as control and spontaneity, menace and wit, urban imagery and primitivism.
Basquiat often incorporated words into his paintings. Before his career as a painter began, he produced punk-inspired postcards for sale on the street, and became known for the political–poetical graffiti under the name of SAMO, often in collaboration with Al Diaz.
The Lunar Year of the Snake T-Shirt features Basquiat’s “Snakeman” 1982 artwork, which also forms the basis of a broader capsule featuring Original Snopants®, shirting and accessories, releasing later in 2025.
Maharishi have created collections inspired by Basquiat since 2002 with projects including a 12” action figure in collaboration with Medicom, Reebok Reeboppers in 2006 and a collaborative camouflage DPM: Bonsai Forest Chalk in 2023.
Basquiat’s 12” figure appeared alongside Warhol’s in Norbert Schoerner’s film for Maharishi AW05 collection.
Untitled (Japan), 1984


Untitled (Snakes), n.d.


Untitled (Per Capita), 1982


Snakeman, 1982


Maharishi AW05 Lookbook


KEO XMEN
KEO XMEN is a prolific, Brooklyn-based graffiti writer and graphic designer.
His work is focused on preserving traditional New York City subway graffiti styles, sampling elements from pop culture, comics, and classic animation characters.
KEO exhibits globally, most recently at SCOPE, Miami Art Fair and Woodbury House Gallery, London. His work is part of the permanent collection of Amsterdam’s STRAAT Museum.
Operation: Doomsday Album Cover, 1999


Karnak K, 2023


Nervous Records Logo


Planet Rock, 2023


TOBY ZIEGLER
Toby Ziegler was born in 1972 in London, where he still lives. He works in painting, sculpture, video and installation.
His output is recognisable for its synthesis of digital and analogue methods, juxtaposing a schematic geometric approach to form with spontaneous gesture. He consistently adopts systems and sabotages them. In his paintings, he draws on a multitude of visual sources including computer games, medieval painting and Japanese prints, to make work that oscillates between figuration and abstraction.
In the 90s Ziegler initiated several shows in abandoned buildings, which were followed by exhibitions in galleries and institutions all over the world. His works are held in many significant collections including Tate, Francois Pinault, LVMH and MONA, to name a few.
His most recent exhibition, at Max Hetzler Gallery in Berlin, opened on January 17th 2025.
Nero, 2023


The Human Engine, 2018


Escapism, 2020


Second Family Portrait, 2023


KAY ONE
Brendan 'Kay One' Backmann is part of Paris’s first wave of graffiti artists.
In 1985, at the age of 15, he began to paint in the streets of France’s capital, collaborating regularly with other artists such as Mode 2, Bando, and the famous NTM crew.
Always in search of the underground avant-garde and invited to England by Judy Blame, Punk iconoclast, he left for London in 1993. There he worked alongside fashion designers such as Blame and Hardy Blechman, designer of the London clothing label Maharishi. They influenced his search for the essential, which he applied to his own creative work while continuing to write in the streets and DJing in the hypes clubs of Mayfair.








The collection is available now online and in the London and New York stores.
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