Last weekend, Tony Tonnaer, K.O.I. owner and founder opened the doors to the second edition of his RRR pop-up store in Amsterdam. Taking his sustainable credentials one step further, Tony looks to local furniture store Raw Materials (famous for its use of natural and recycled materials) to house his selection of eco-friendly denims.
Amsterdam is widely known as Europe's denim capital,
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We're big fans of Kiya Babzani and his expert denim team at Self Edge. The stores in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York serve the most discerning of denim connoisseurs as well as helping and educating those shopping for their first pair of premium jeans. The stores stock a well-researched and selected pick of rigid denim brands including hard-to find
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Much has been written about the purist, Made in America movement that's been slowly emerging over the last few years in the U.S. We've explored brands such as Telleson, Raleigh, Imogen + Willie, Jack Knife Outfitters and Roy, as well as numerous other like-minded artisanal denim brands working with quality materials and time-proven crafts. A venture that’s emerged to nurture such brands and
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Each summer season brings with it a new selection of young and forward thinking design graduates. Scouting the newest in denim-design, Stylesight's denim team has picked up Faustine Steinmetz and her collection of handwoven denim-inspired pieces.
London's Central St Martins has always been recognized for its hotbed of young and emerging designers. Each summer the school presents a directional portfolio of design
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The denim scene in Antwerp is currently thriving... with notable fledgeling denim brands such as Eat Dust as well big players like Lee and Wrangler based in the city, there are plenty of denim heads around to create a strong scene.
We're off to Antwerp in a couple of weeks to check out the city and will definitely be dropping by
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Stylesight's Denim Team sits down with Edwin's Art Director Benjamin Robinson to take an inside look at the recently released FURTHER motorcycle film.
Earlier this year Edwin-Europe released the FURTHER series — two short films that documented the Edwin and Kingdom of Kicks crews as they embarked on a motorcycle trip from London to Biarritz to take part in the Wheels & Waves event. Riding custom
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Stylesight's Denim Team has come across an exciting new denim brand, Strom who made waves at the F/W 13 season's Coterie trade show in New York.
Strom is founded by Erika Stromqvist, a Swedish former runway model with extensive experience walking shows from Chanel to Alexander McQueen to name just a couple. Her experience working with designers such as Nicolas Ghesquière, Marc
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London men's denim label, Jean Machine partners with Missoni, the iconic fashion house for their Fall/Winter 13 ready-to-wear collection.
Over the past few seasons, an increasing number of runway designers have been collaborating with established denim brands on ready-to-wear collections. Some of the most notable partnerships that have hit international Fashion Weeks include Mary Katrantzou for Current Elliott, Notfiy Denim x Manish Arora, Levi’s x Junya
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While Edwin became known as one of Japan’s top denim producers in the '60s, its new European counterpart has elevated the brand into one of the most notable denim brands of today. Stylesight's denim team recently interviewed Pierre Boisselle about Edwin's upcoming Fall/Winter 2013 collection as well as his vision behind the label.
Since its inception in 2009, Edwin-Europe has elevated the Edwin brand from premium
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At the end of March, Levi's Vintage Clothing hosted a launch party to celebrate their S/S 13 Miner collection at Unionmade in San Francisco. For the evening, LVC invited the Levi's Archive Team to share some of the exceptionally special turn-of-the-century Levi's garments that inspired this Spring offering.
Over the first quarter of 2013, the Levi's Vintage Clothing team has already
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Oliver Harkness, owner and founder of The Quality Mending Company, is one of New York City's vintage clothing legends. Oliver's vintage shop at 15 Prince Street has been one of the city's most venerable vintage purveyors since it opened in 2003. To showcase this celebrated store, local Brooklyn-based production company Co.Mission teamed up with QMC for a short film on
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Emerging London designers Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida have been putting out womenswear collections for over two years now, but S/S 13 marks the design duo's debut menswear outing.
Portuguese designers Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida, have only a few collections under their belt, but they have already earned themselves a huge fan base with street style stars like Elena Perminova as well as rail
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The Fall/Winter 2013 women’s collection from Edwin brings with it the introduction of Pascale Koehl as its new designer. We sat down with the designer to discuss her debut collection for Edwin and her passion for denim.
Edwin has been at the forefront of the Men's denim market since their conception in 1947. In recent years, the Japanese brand has become increasingly
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Last Friday (April 12th), Bob Rijnders from Butcher of Blue hosted a launch night in Hoogland for his newly released book and exhibition of the Butcher Jean, a collaboration with Jason Denham.
In November 2010, two well-known denim lovers, Bob Rijnders (owner of speciality jeans store Best of Brands and founder of jeans label Butcher of Blue) and Jason Denham (of Denham the Jeanmaker)
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We're a big fan of Miles Johnson from Levi's Vintage Clothing in Amsterdam and are proud to call him a denim buddy. So we were excited to see that the guys over at Mr Porter recognized Johnson's talents and made this lovely video of him, below.
The video follows Miles through his seasonal work as the design directer at LVC, from visiting
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