Vogue on Anyma × LISA tee spark
Vogue ran an exclusive on a collab between electronic artist Anyma and singer Lisa that was actually inspired by a graphic T‑shirt — the piece has been getting traction as an example of how a single wardrobe object can spark cross‑genre creative partnerships. (x.com)
A Vogue interview about “Bad Angel” turned on an unexpectedly small detail: Anyma and Lisa said a graphic T-shirt helped spark the collaboration, tying a $50 merch object to a release timed around Coachella 2026. (vogue.com) The song itself is real and brand-new. Billboard reported on April 7 that Blackpink member Lisa and Italian American producer Anyma had announced “Bad Angel,” and Vogue published its interview on April 11, the same day Anyma was set for Coachella’s main stage. (billboard.com) (vogue.com) (coachella.com) That helps explain why the T-shirt anecdote landed. This was not an old studio story dug up months later; it was attached to a live rollout with a fresh single, a fashion magazine exclusive, and a festival weekend already focused on Anyma’s visual world. (vogue.com) (coachella.com) Anyma, whose real name is Matteo Milleri, has spent the last few years building electronic shows around giant screen visuals, science fiction imagery, and recurring characters. Vogue framed his 2026 Coachella set as the debut of “ÆDEN,” an audiovisual project large enough that the interview doubled as part music promo and part world-building. (vogue.com) Lisa comes from a very different lane. She is the Thai rapper and singer best known from Blackpink, and recent coverage around “Bad Angel” treated the pairing as a crossover between global pop and festival-scale electronic music rather than a routine feature verse. (billboard.com) (udiscovermusic.com) The shirt matters because merch is usually the souvenir at the end of a campaign, not the object that starts one. In this case, Vogue said the graphic tee was part of the conversation that helped connect their visual instincts before the audience ever heard the full song. (vogue.com) By April 11, that idea had already been folded back into commerce. Anyma’s official store listed multiple “Anyma x Lisa Bad Angel” items, including black and white tees priced at $50 and a hoodie priced at $150, with at least one tee page marked as a pre-order shipping in four to five weeks. (anyma.shop 1) (anyma.shop 2) So the loop is unusually tight: a graphic T-shirt helps inspire a collaboration, the collaboration becomes “Bad Angel,” and the release immediately generates a new line of graphic T-shirts carrying the song’s name. It is less like wardrobe supporting the music than wardrobe acting as the first sketch of the project. (vogue.com) (anyma.shop) The Coachella backdrop made that loop even sharper. Coachella’s 2026 festival runs April 10 to 12 and April 17 to 19, and Vogue explicitly tied its interview to Anyma’s planned main-stage appearance, giving the story a built-in audience of fashion readers, dance fans, and Lisa fans all at once. (coachella.com) (vogue.com) There was one last twist on April 11: reports later that day said Anyma’s first Coachella 2026 set was canceled because of strong winds. That left Vogue’s interview and the “Bad Angel” release doing even more of the work of introducing the partnership than a live debut would have. (latimes.com) (msn.com)
