The man behind some of Japan's most stylish denim has one main rule: fabric first
Mehervan Sethi began promoting Japanese denim as a way to give back to the country that has "done so much for me and my family."
NYSE drops 'no jeans' policy as Levi Strauss goes public again, shares surge 31%
Levi Strauss & Co., which gave America its first pair of blue jeans, is public for the second time. The stock, which is listed under the ticker "LEVI," opened for trading on Thursday up 31 percent on very strong demand and recently changed hands at ...
Are $1,500 blue jeans worth it?
What does $1,500 get you in blue jeans? One answer is 44 pairs of Wranglers. Another: four or five pairs of raw denim — a rigid, rugged, unrinsed jean for true connoisseurs — from Pure Blue Japan, Samurai or any of the other excellent brands ...
Denim dreams: Dyeing to live in the industrial heart of Okayama
Hirohiko Sunami's hands emerge from his indigo vat covered in rivulets of fermenting natural dye. The light is dim in this Kojima workshop, but a few stray sunbeams reflect off the millions of bubbles at the vat's surface as Sunami pulls a piece of ...
Hokkaido villagers bid for world record with 295 pairs of frozen jeans
No flannel, this is serious. Villagers in Hokkaido are making a bid for a Guinness World Record with the largest number of frozen pairs of jeans standing in the snow. The bid in the village of Sarabetsu involves 295 pairs of trousers of various colors ...
Jeans maker Edwin Co. has filed for an out-of-court procedure to rehabilitate its business through a private-sector intermediary, a credit research agency and lawyers said Wednesday. Following its fiddling of accounts to conceal its losses from derivatives transactions, the largest jeans maker in Japan aims ...
For those who like their denim laid on thick
How do you like your denim? Thick n heavy-duty? Try these on for size.
Discount chain Don Quijote underbids everyone in the "three-digit jeans price war." How low will they go?
