Underground Street-wear Brand to 1 Billion $$$ Global Phenomenon. They spawned this collector Personas called HypeBeasts, basically spawned out of Additction to the Supreme Brand; and their most popular artifact is the Box Logo. No spending on Marketing, Supreme has taken the word of mouth marketing to turn Product Launches into sort of micro experiential events.

Founded in 1994, by James Jebbia , an American-English Fashion Designer, since then Supreme has taken a combination of high profile of brand collaborations, an incredibly small production quantities to its advantage. Though choking the supply, wasnt necessarly a strategic decision, they just didnt want to get stuck with unwanted inventory. Now this method is core to the Companys business models, making every launch of a press worthy event, anf each item a limited edition collector’s piece with skyrocketing value on the resale.

Supreme Brand has now become a personal statement for the folks that are using it – a Badge of Cool. Supreme has now introduces a lottery system due to the crowded store fronts, and launch day brawls. Supreme is only open to the public during their Seasonal Drops, new merchs are released on Thursday, and to get in one has to sign in by Tuesday 11 am . Now Half the company is owned bu the Carlyle Group ( cost them 500 Million $$$). Currently they have 11 Stores overall ( 4 in USA, & 7 Outside of USA), but none in China. So the after market attracts a lot of affluent Chinese Buyers which makes the costs go 6 X of the costs at a Supreme Store. Though this has resulted in lot of fake stores, and one Brand in Italy called Supreme Italia ( with an Identical Supreme Logo). the Supreme Addicts or Fans denounce the fakes. But there is hit on Supreme as well, as it seems that their logo was inspired by Barbara Kruger’s Art (
https://www.heroine.com/the-editorial/supreme-barbara-kruger ). With Private Equity involved, there is a chance that Supreme can go MASS$$$. But if that happens then Supreme can loose its Street Cred..

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