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This article is more than 11 months old. The Supreme store on Fairfax in Los Angeles. Edward Helmore. Mon 9 Nov Topics Retail industry news. Reuse this content. You know, they have a younger audience base and they're educating people on art, on music and on fashion," he tells CNBC Make It. In fact, the Supreme brand is so sought after that the company also faces a problem with copyright infringement stemming, in part, from the fact that Supreme was unable to trademark its brand until due to the brand name's similarity to too many other products and brands with "Supreme" in the title.

It's a good name, but it's a difficult one to trademark," Jebbia told Interview magazine in Supreme also won a lawsuit in Italian court in , against a company called "Supreme Italia," which sold what trademark lawyers called "legal fake" products that closely resemble Supreme's products, right down to the red box logos with the word "Supreme.

Marketing research company SEMrush found that Supreme topped its list of brands with the most online searches for fake and replica products in both and One explanation for Supreme's popularity with young consumers — enough so to make them line up for hours at a time — has to do with the idea that the brand's products are "emblematic of rebellious youth culture," according to Gage. In fact, Supreme barely markets itself at all.

What makes them really successful is the community that they're part of and that they've built. However, in its own way, Supreme has found a way to use the brand's own mystique to generate hype that has helped the underground brand gain a global following. That ends up generating a lot of buzz, a lot of curiosity to the public. Supreme also generates buzz with a never-ending lineup of branded curiosities — items no one would normally expect to see sold by a skateboard or streetwear brand, but when slapped with Supreme's unmistakable red and white logo, they instantly become must-have products for the most ardent Supreme fans.

The company has sold everything from Supreme-branded hammers , nunchucks , and kayaks to a Supreme brick literally a red clay brick stamped with the Supreme logo. The brand even teased a Supreme-branded dirt bike through a partnership with Honda and Fox Racing in The more random a Supreme item may seem, the more sought after it's likely to be by the biggest Supreme fans. Whatever the reasoning behind it, Supreme's reluctant, guerrilla-style marketing seems to have had the desired effect.

Research on teenagers' retail habits by investment bank Piper Jaffray has shown in recent years that streetwear styles, led by brands like Supreme and Vans, have spurred increased spending among teen consumers.

And, a Spring survey from Piper Jaffray found that Supreme was Generation Z's 10th favorite brand, though the bank's analysts have noted that the brand's popularity might finally be starting to taper off with teens.

Is it possible the association with a private equity giant like the Carlyle Group might have taken a bite out of Supreme's cool, edgy aura? Even before the sale to VF Corp, Supreme had already come under fire from critics like comedian Hasan Minhaj , whose Netflix show "Patriot Act" skewered the brand's partnership with the Carlyle Group by making t-shirts featuring red box logos similar to Supreme's own logo, but with the words "Private Equity" swapped out for the Supreme name.

Much like Supreme's products, Minhaj made a small run of shirts, sold them for a low price, and then watched them fetch many multiples more on the resale market due to the laws of supply and demand.

For instance, as branding expert Cliff Sloan points out, there were concerns that the Carlyle Group would want to see more revenue from Supreme and push the brand to move away from its strategy of limited releases that drive up demand for new products in favor of a more mass-market approach.

And that stands to potentially compromise its street cred, compromise its sense of cool with its core audience base," says Sloan. For Migraine, the Carlyle Group investment left him "a little bit concerned, initially. But, he adds that the past two years since the deal was announced haven't brought any of the potentially major changes to Supreme's business model that diehard fans like himself might have worried about.

Of course, now fans and skeptics alike will have to wonder what the future holds for Supreme as a portfolio brand under the ownership of the Denver-based apparel conglomerate VF Corp. Supreme's private equity owners are selling their stakes in the company as part of the deal, CNBC reported on Monday.

VF Corp sees Supreme's strong e-commerce presence bolstering the parent company's online business at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has driven many shoppers online and away from brick-and-mortar stores.

VF Corp also announced that Supreme founder Jebbia the brand's senior leadership team will remain with the company after the sale is completed. Meanwhile, in a press release , Jebbia had this to say in a statement: "We are proud to join VF, a world-class company that is home to great brands we've worked with for years, including The North Face, Vans, and Timberland.

This partnership will maintain our unique culture and independence, while allowing us to grow on the same path we've been on since Correction: This story has been corrected to reflect that Supreme won its court case against Supreme Italia in How S'well turned water bottles into a fashion accessory and built an empire.

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