Levi’s collaborated with Supreme on its first joint collection in 2006.
The partnership connected Supreme with one of the world’s most recognizable denim companies. The resulting pieces used Levi’s familiar jeanswear vocabulary while adding Supreme’s limited-release approach and branding.
Levi Strauss & Co. was founded in San Francisco in 1853 and is widely associated with the invention and popularization of riveted blue jeans. Supreme’s collaboration with Levi’s therefore joined a historic American workwear manufacturer to a younger New York skatewear brand.
Wrangler, Lee, and Diesel are plausible alternatives because each is strongly associated with denim. They were not the company named in the 2006 Supreme collaboration. Levi’s is the specific answer, and the year identifies the first joint collection in this partnership.