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29 Mar

Tommy Jeans, Aries Celebrates the ’90s and DIY Subculture

LONDON — It’s Aries season.  The London-based luxury streetwear brand Aries has collaborated with Tommy Hilfiger on a Tommy Jeans collection reimagining all the American brand’s archival pieces in 35 pieces. “Everyone today has loads of collaboration[s]. For me, it’s at all times necessary that a collaboration feels authentic and that I’m actually bringing something to the opposite brand and it’s not nearly logos. You possibly can’t piggyback on another person’s product,” Sofia Prantera, founder and artistic director of Aries, told WWD. The project began two years ago, when Lee Holman, chief design officer at Tommy Hilfiger was discussing who to work with with Prantera, who was not initially within the running, but has built a brand that’s prolific within the zeitgeisty collaboration...
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28 Mar

BTS’ Jung Kook Tapped as Global Ambassador for Calvin

Calvin Klein has tapped BTS member Jung Kook as global brand ambassador for Calvin Klein Jeans and Underwear. The singer makes his debut for the brand in a recent campaign wearing Calvin Klein’s spring 2023 collections. Photographed by Park Jong Ha, the campaign spotlights him in recent styles, including the ’90s Straight denim and Body Jeans, Relaxed Fit Denim Shirt, Oversized Denim Jacket and Relaxed Fit Standard Logo Crewneck Tee. RELATED: Louis Vuitton Signs BTS Member J-Hope as Brand Ambassador Jonathan Bottomley, global chief marketing officer of Calvin Klein said, “We pride ourselves on identifying globally relevant talent whose cultural impact and values align with our own. Jung Kook is one in all the world’s hottest artists; he possesses a rare ability to...
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28 Dec

You Just Bought a Pair of Eighties Levi’s Jeans.

You Just Bought LOS ANGELES —You Just Bought  Surrounded by neat stacks of perfectly pressed vintage Levi’s jeans and racks of faded blue denim jackets, Zip Stevenson sits amongst a wealth of old clothes. His classic pieces, sold at his Denim Doctors store near downtown Los Angeles, are many a long time old and fetch about $200 to $300 for a pair of jeans. But his most dear pair of denim pants are much, much older and should not at the shop. They're safely locked away. In early October, Stevenson and his bidding partner, Kyle Haupert, a San Diego vintage denim dealer, paid $76,000 for a pair of Eighties Levi’s that were being auctioned off in an RV park on the Durango Vintage...
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