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Champion is a manufacturer of clothing specialising in sportswear. The brand is a subsidiary of HanesBrands Inc., based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which was spun off by the Sara Lee Corporation, and Champion is HanesBrands' second largest brand after the namesake Hanes brand. Champion sportswear has been a popular staple in hip hop and urban fashion since the early 1990s, and its hooded sweatshirt became an iconic garment.
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Champion is HanesBrands' second largest brand with the namesake Hanes brand in first place. Other brands owned by HanesBrands Inc. are Playtex (its third largest brand), Bali, Just My Size, Barely There, Wonderbra, L'eggs, C9 by Champion, Duofold, Beefy-T, Outer Banks, Sol y Oro, Rinbros, Zorba and Ritmo.
Champion is the clothing company that invented the sports bra, reversible t-shirts, and breathable mesh clothing (found in trucker hats).
Champion sportswear has been a popular staple in hip hop and urban fashion since the early 1990s. The Champion hooded sweatshirt was heavily popularized by seminal 90s New York based rappers including A Tribe Called Quest, Ill Al Skratch and Mobb Deep. These rappers were often seen wearing the iconic Champion hoodies in their music videos and during their live performances. Today, hardcore rappers like 50 Cent, The Game, Ghostface Killah and Fat Joe have continued the tradition of wearing Champion hoodies in their music videos and during their television appearances. Many rappers have referenced Champion hoodies in their rhymes. Most notably, Nas name-dropped Champion's trademark sweatshirt on DJ Kayslay's "Too Much For Me" in 2003 rapping,"I'm a braveheart in Carhartt and Champion hoodies". The Champion "Superhood" has emerged as THE "Hoodie" to wear in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and NYC. Available in a large selection colors, it is used to hook-up with Sneakers and Hats. Many stores have designed New Era Hats to color-match the Superhood.
Champion has produced uniforms for National Basketball Association teams. It has also produced sportswear for many major colleges.
From 2008, Champion produced kits for Premier League side, Wigan Athletic F.C. and the Wales national football team.
During the 1990s Champion was the official sponsor of the NBA. They stopped being the sponsor in 2000.
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Champion's place in sportswear rests first on invention. The sports bra, the reversible t-shirt and breathable mesh clothing all began at Champion, and each solved a team-sport problem: support for women athletes, a practice shirt that could serve as both home and away colours in one garment, and mesh that lets air move through a jersey or a trucker hat. Inventions of that kind rarely stay exclusive for long, but they mark the company as an originator in the basics of athletic dress, and they sit behind its work supplying uniforms to NBA teams and sportswear to major colleges.
The second half of the Champion story is what happened to its hooded sweatshirt off the field. Since the early 1990s Champion sportswear has been a staple of hip hop and urban fashion: the hoodies were worn by New York rappers including A Tribe Called Quest, Ill Al Skratch and Mobb Deep in videos and live performances, and later by 50 Cent, The Game, Ghostface Killah and Fat Joe. The Champion Superhood became the hoodie to wear in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and New York City, sold in a large selection of colours to match with sneakers and hats, with stores designing New Era hats to colour-match it, and Nas name-dropped the trademark sweatshirt in 2003. Inside HanesBrands, Champion also lends its name to the C9 by Champion line, sitting in a portfolio alongside Hanes, Playtex, Bali, Wonderbra and L'eggs.
Champion is the clothing company that invented the sports bra, reversible t-shirts, and breathable mesh clothing, found in trucker hats. Those three inventions cover underwear, team practice wear and warm-weather sportswear, and all three became standard items across the sportswear industry.
Champion is a subsidiary of HanesBrands Inc., based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which was spun off by the Sara Lee Corporation. Champion is HanesBrands' second largest brand, with the namesake Hanes brand in first place and Playtex its third largest brand.
Champion has produced uniforms for National Basketball Association teams and sportswear for many major colleges, and during the 1990s Champion was the official sponsor of the NBA, a sponsorship that ended in 2000. From 2008, Champion produced kits for Premier League side Wigan Athletic F.C. and the Wales national football team.