Supreme x Champion Label Hooded Sweatshirt
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
About the original
The Champion Label Hooded Sweatshirt is built on Champion's reverse-weave pullover, a heavyweight cotton fleece construction with cross-grain side panels that resist vertical shrinkage. Champion was founded in Rochester, New York in 1919 by the Feinbloom brothers and patented the reverse-weave construction in 1952 after years of refinement supplying college athletic departments. The Supreme FW18 release applies a co-branded woven label at the chest and offered the hoodie in black, navy, ash grey, red, and yellow. The garment is the standard Champion reverse-weave pullover hoodie made in the same weight and cut Champion sells under its own line; the label hit and the seasonal colorways are the only changes.
About Champion
Champion is an American sportswear company founded in 1919 by Simon Feinbloom and his sons William and Abraham in Rochester, New York, originally as Knickerbocker Knitting Mills. The company supplied athletic uniforms to the University of Michigan in the 1920s and to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point shortly after. Champion developed the reverse-weave sweatshirt in 1938, a construction that runs the fabric crosswise to limit shrinkage, and produced the first hooded sweatshirts for cold-weather laborers and athletes. HanesBrands has owned the label since 2006. Supreme has collaborated with Champion on co-branded hoodies, crewnecks, and sweatpants since the early 2000s.
