Benzak Denim Developers Go Back To the Well With A Second Kickstarter
Benzak Denim Developers will once again use the crowd-funding model to finance a project. Here's what they told Denim Hunters and why....
Tag : Japanese denim
Pure Blue Japan: The Pureness of Handcrafted Japanese Jeans
Pure Blue Japan (PBJ), or Syoaiya, was established by Japanese denimhead Ken-ichi Iwaya in the historic city of Kurashiki in Japan’s Okayama prefecture. Since its founding...
Blue Blanket: A Story of Spaghetti Westerns and 15 Years of Denim Collecting
Italians have had a love affair with denim for decades. But a true raw denim brand from Italy is a rare sight. Avid collector Antonio...
What Does $95 Get You In the World of Raw Denim?
Last year RPMWEST had a runaway success with their Kickstarter campaign. They offered to cut out the middleman and bring us raw selvedge denim at...
Why EVISU’s Private Stock No. 2 Jeans Is A Collectors Item
The near obsessive following EVISU have garnered since their inception in 1991 has been down to their equally obsessive attention to detail when making jeans....
This Dutch Denim Craftsman Learned to Sew by Watching YouTube
Kenley Chittick, a 28-year-old living in The Netherlands, learned how to sew jeans and jackets by watching a YouTube video. He was managing a jean shop...
Companion Denim: Could This Be Europe’s Answer to Roy Slaper?
Barcelona, with its hot humid climate, may seem like one of the last places you would think of wearing raw denim; let alone find what...
RPMWEST Launches Limited Edition Kickstarter With 5 Japanese Denims
RPMWEST is celebrating their 1st anniversary with a new Kickstarter campaign. They offer a special limited batch of 5 fine Japanese selvedge denims, including a denim...
Jeans Just As They Should Be – Brown-Duck & Digger
Brown-Duck & Digger (BD&D) – the new sub label by Warehouse & Co specialising in authentic workwear jeans from 1900 to the 1960s – debuted...
The Roaring 20s In a Denim Work Shirt: bybeatle’s The Golden Nugget
Denim forum guru Andrea Baburske, more commonly known by her alias ‘beatle’, introduced her own jeans earlier this year. Now she’s ready with a denim...