Supreme x Coogi Basketball Jersey
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
About the original
Coogi was founded in 1969 in Toorak, a suburb of Melbourne, as Cuggi by Jacky Taranto, and produced mercerised-cotton and merino-wool knitwear for the Australian market before changing its name permanently in 1987. The brand's three-dimensional multicolor jacquard became a cultural touchstone in the 1990s after Notorious B.I.G. wore Coogi sweaters on magazine covers and name-checked the label in multiple songs. Taranto sold the brand to US investors in 2002 for a reported $25 million. The SS2023 Supreme Basketball Jersey applies Coogi's signature dense jacquard knit to a sleeveless basketball cut with a V-neck and Coogi and Supreme logo knits at the chest, merging the brand's knitwear construction with a mesh-tank silhouette.
About Coogi
Coogi is an Australian knitwear brand founded in 1969 in Melbourne by Jacky Taranto, originally under the spelling CUGGI before being renamed COOGI in 1987. The company produces multicolor three-dimensional jacquard knitwear from merino wool, with raised, textured patterns in dense color combinations. Biggie Smalls wore Coogi sweaters throughout the mid-1990s and namechecked the brand on Hypnotize and One More Chance, attaching it to East Coast hip-hop iconography. Supreme has collaborated with Coogi on a co-branded multicolor knit sweater.
