Crazy busy weekend for news. Las Vegas isn’t short on noise, but this past weekend at ComplexCon, the loudest thing in the room wasn’t a sound — it was a collaboration. Babylon LA, the Los Angeles streetwear label founded by Lee Spielman and Garrett Stevenson of hardcore band Trash Talk teamed up with Jackass frontman Johnny Knoxville for an exclusive capsule drop and fanfare activation that felt equal parts fashion show and punk spectacle.
The event marked Babylon’s first official appearance at ComplexCon Las Vegas, and they didn’t hold back. Their booth looked like a cross between a skateshop, a film set, and a warehouse show. The energy hit somewhere between nostalgia and adrenaline — fans lined up for merch while Knoxville worked the crowd, laughing, signing autographs, and posing with anyone brave enough to ask.
The capsule collection featured limited-edition tees, jackets, and hoodies merging Babylon’s raw skate-punk aesthetic with classic Jackass iconography — the skull-and-crutches logo, hazard motifs, and the giant shopping cart used. Each piece looked like a time capsule from early-2000s MTV chaos, reimagined for 2025’s hype-driven streetwear scene.
Lee Spielman and Garrett Stevenson have always curated Babylon as more than a brand; it’s a thesis statement about how self-inflicted chaos can be art if you film it with enough conviction. Their entire ethos mirrors what made Jackass a generational religion: a defiant rejection of polish, a love for DIY pain, and the conviction that authenticity isn’t real unless it leaves a laceration.
So when Johnny Knoxville stepped into the Babylon orbit, it didn’t feel like a collaboration; it felt like the final stage of evolution. The man who made concussion into comedy aligning with the guys who turned punk nihilism into streetwear theology. Knoxville’s recent announcement as “headmaster” on Fox’s unexpected Fear Factor reboot only deepens the mythology. It’s as if the universe finally realized that our collective attention span requires equal parts adrenaline and absurdity to stay awake.
We’ve entered an era of cultural recursion in which irony has been fully monetized, and sincerity survives only when disguised as spectacle. Babylon understands this better than anyone. By teaming up with Jackass, they’re not selling clothes—they’re selling the emotional residue of a generation that learned to laugh at its own head wounds. Catch all the future drops of Babylon LA, here.
Source to photos and announcement via Instagram.
