Supreme x Opinel No.08 Carbon Steel Folding Knife
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
Original — Opinel
No.08 Carbon Steel Folding Knife
About the original
The Opinel No.08 is a French folding knife with an 8.5-centimeter XC90 high-carbon steel blade, a varnished beechwood handle, and the brand's Virobloc safety ring, a twistlock collar introduced in 1955 by Marcel Opinel and updated in 2000 to lock the blade both open and closed. The knife weighs 1.6 ounces and carries the crowned-hand Savoyard emblem stamped on the blade. Opinel has produced this design continuously in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie since Joseph Opinel founded the company in 1890. The No.08 is the most popular size in a numbered range running from No.02 to No.13. The FW2020 Supreme collab adds box logo branding to the handle.
About Opinel
Opinel is a French knife manufacturer founded in 1890 by Joseph Opinel in the Savoie region of the French Alps, where it is still family-owned and produced. Opinel began selling the numbered folding knife with a beechwood handle to local farmers, herdsmen, and winemakers, and introduced the Virobloc rotating locking collar in 1955. The company registered the crowned-hand trademark in 1909 and had sold roughly twenty million knives by the start of World War II. The No.08 was included in the Victoria and Albert Museum's list of the hundred best-designed objects. Supreme's collaboration with Opinel pairs the box logo with the numbered folding knife.
