There are so many great denim brands in Japan; some are well known, while some are shrouded in mystery and are a denim insider's secret. We recently stumbled upon the hard-to-pronounce but very cool brand Ooe Yofukuten and wanted to share their story with you. We found them via two great sources of denim inspiration, the blog Rawrdenim.com and the
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Last weekend we re-visited the amazing Okayama region of Japan to see a unique event in the heart of this "Denim City."
The Inazuma Festival takes place every year on the outskirts of Tokyo but for 2012, the organizers decided to move location farther south, past Kyoto and into Okayama. For those not familiar with this area, please read our earlier post
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We are BIG fans of Michael Harris. He was originally an antique bottle specialist, hunting for vintage bottles all over America, including many desert mine-shaft locations. It was here that he found another passion... for denim!
Michael's interest in denim was piqued during a conversation with Ralph Tharpe of Cone Denim. Working closely with Cone and Levi's, he was pulled into the world of
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No trip to Tokyo would be complete without a stop at Daikanyama's Okura store. This treasure trove of all things indigo offers a glimpse into Japan's traditional craft and its deep affinity with natural indigo hand dye, batik and block print techniques, and sashiko stitch hand-craft. A trip down the denim-lined stairs into Bombay Bazaar for lunch is almost obligatory, and
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Hong Kong denim collector and Take 5 owner Benny Seki opens up his personal Evisu vaults to share these hand-painted jeans.
Evisu is renowned for its craftsmanship of hand-painted denim, with its iconic "Seagull" logo painted on every pair of jeans. Urban fashion blog, Hypebeast visited Hong Kong denim collector and Take 5 owner Benny Seki to capture some of the Japanese brand's rare archival items,
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We're always on the lookout for new inspirational denim blogs and tumblrs, imagery being the foremost element in our research at Stylesight. Thats why we're so excited about shitdenim.com! Yes, you heard it right - despite the name, shitdenim.com (we love it) is a great go-to URL that houses a huge amount of denim imagery.
Shitdenim is the work of denim
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Here at Stylesight, we're very keen on pushing eco denim initiatives, and seeing as this Sunday is Earth Day, we're highlighting two events going on to mark the day from a denim perspective.
First off we have GNTherapy, an amazing brand we discovered at February's Project Las Vegas trade show. GN Therapy's mission is to create wash techniques that do not effect the environment,
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Yesterday was the WWD Denim Summit in Los Angeles, and we went over to the venue at the Roosevelt Hotel to check it out.
The WWD Denim Summit gathered leaders of the industry to address the solutions to the sector's most pressing issues: new fabrics and fibers that reflect consumers' changing tastes, technology that offers solutions for sustainability and transparency, strategies
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We've been into Bleulab's amazing reversible jeans for a while now, first noting them in our reversible denim post in 2010 and then creating a report on the brand last april. Since its inception by creative director Carl Jones, the brand has been going from strength to strength and is now stocked in hundreds of stores around the world.
If you don't
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It's always interesting to keep an eye on what retailers are doing denim-wise out there on the worldwide web. Last week we noticed a feature on Refinery29's website celebrating a whole month dedicated to denim.
For the entire month of April, the site interviews celebrities, industry insiders and just downright cool dudes on their denim wardrobes.
The Month kicked off with denim 'It'
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