Why Are Supreme & Dickies Collaborating Now?
Season: Fall/Winter 2021
Buy: Online at Supreme's website
Release Date: TBD
Editor's Notes: The Supreme collaboration we've all been waiting for might drop this week.
After quietly teasing the team-up in August (peep the label on the pants), the biggest streetwear brand on the planet — and ostensibly a skate company with its own team — will launch Supreme x Dickies as one of its last drops of the FW21 season.
In retrospect, it's strange that a company as collab-happy as Supreme hadn't come together with Dickies, the unofficial-official brand of skate pants, until 2021.
In fact, fans have wondered for years when they'd see the two labels link. Apparently, it took that VF Corp acquisition to finally make the match.
VF owns both companies, so these kinda in-house crossovers seem to be second nature, though Sup has worked with VF-operated labels like The North Face and Timberland for years.
Still, it is odd that it's taken Supreme so long to align with Dickies. Given Supreme's predilection for partnering with companies that boast sufficient heritage (Stone Island, Lacoste, Vans), it doesn't really make sense.
Considering the loftiness of the partners that Supreme worked with last season, though — Pucci and KAWS, for instance — it's nice enough to see Supreme return to its skate roots.
Unsurprisingly, Supreme isn't merely dishing out a set of logo-laden 874 pants — it's also opting for a bespoke set of insulated Dickies carpenter pants. They're cushy and quilted for extra winter warmth, riveted for hardiness and washed for softness.
Supreme has yet to announce an official release date, but it's pretty safe to guess the collection will drop this week, given the usual timing of its seasonal roll-outs.
In the meantime, mark your calendar for Supreme x Vans, coming very soon.
