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Charting the Rise of Supreme, From Cult Skate Shop to Fashion Superpower

  • Writer: Admin
    Admin
  • Aug 10, 2017
  • 1 min read

James Jebbia, the man who, in 1994, founded and to this day runs the SoHo-based company that has been making clothing and skateboards and a lot of other things that the people who love it absolutely have to have, doesn't think of Supreme the way most people in fashion might-as a brand that started out in a small store on Lafayette Street and has since inched its way to legendary global status.

He thinks of Supreme more as a space. When Jebbia was a teenager in Crawley, West Sussex, in the eighties, working at a Duracell factory, listening to T. Rex and Bowie on breaks and spending his spare cash on trips to London to buy clothes, it was always in a certain elusive kind of store—one that became the model for Supreme.

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