All these very stylish people wandering around in double denim and camel coats look very authentic and fashionable, but sometimes there's nothing better than a great pair of jeans, and these look amazing. MiH Jeans 'Roadtrip' style if I'm not very much mistaken. Perfectly lit picture from Garance Dore.
I keep seeing these images, mainly from Chloe AW10 but also from all the street style photographers and bloggers, that remind me of Brian Duffy photographs from the late 1970's. Scale, volume and colour were so different, and so much softer - at once more covered up but so much more open and less aggressive. The strong simple details are beautiful.
The Chloe AW10 images are from the Love Magazine blog, and the girl in the black jeans & Ferragamo jumper is a photo by Garance Dore. The Brian Duffy photo is from French Elle from 1979.
Resin Denim's SS2010 LookBook. I haven't seen this brand around for a while, but I think this has a really strong point of view. It's cool as opposed to feminine, and very Gothic Folk. Source: Fashion Gone Rogue
So I have pictured some lacing before, not least from the Erin Wasson x RVCA jeans, and certainly some patching. It seems it's not a real jeans collection unless some eager beaver patches together old jeans from the brand's archives and charges $1000 for it. But there's something so great and 1970's about these, and I love the combination of really tarty and really elegant that this encapsulations. It's like Chloe meets Two Lane Blacktop.
Denim is all about authenticity. And sex, drugs and rock & roll. And being iconic.
I follow what's going on at the relevant fashion shows and brands, who's wearing what jean, and the forums where boys post pictures of the progress of their latest pair of jeans. I try to pull out the good stuff and put it here; find the insight in the information.
I don't believe in high & low culture in jeans. I like knowing about who uses original cotton thread, but I’m not going to rule them out if the denim hasn’t been lovingly handcrafted by tiny blue angels. I’m as interested in looking cool in a pair of high street jeans as I am in a new Japanese denim atelier.
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