Supreme x The North Face Steep Tech Waist Bag
Supreme vs. Original
About the original
The North Face Steep Tech Fanny Pack is a waist bag built from water-repellent polyester with two front pockets, two side pockets including a water bottle slot, a radio pocket, and an adjustable waist strap with a TPU Steep Tech logo patch. The North Face was founded in San Francisco in 1966 by Doug Tompkins and Susie Tompkins Buell as a climbing retail shop. The Steep Tech line traces back to TNF's early 1990s collaboration with extreme skier Scot Schmidt and was designed to withstand high-altitude ski mountaineering; the program has been reissued in multiple forms since, including extensive reworks under Supreme starting in 2014. The collab version adds embossed branding on the lining and a woven label on the strap.
About The North Face
The North Face is an American outdoor apparel and equipment company founded in 1966 by Douglas and Susie Tompkins as a mountaineering retail store in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. The company introduced the Sierra down parka in 1968 and the geodesic Oval Intention tent in 1975, and its Nuptse down jacket, released in 1992, is named for the 7,861-meter Himalayan peak. The brand now produces the Summit Series, Steep Tech, and Denali fleece lines under VF Corporation ownership. Supreme and The North Face have run one of streetwear's longest ongoing collaborations, releasing seasonal capsules each spring and fall since 2007.
