Archive for April, 2009
Evisu Photo Book Tateoti
The Tateoti book is more expensive than a magazine, so I thought I’d give you a glimpse of what is good about it. It’s a similar size to a regular magazine, denim covered, and the first two thirds of the book is just full of photos of worn-in denim. The image captions include the denim [...]
Amazon Japan Ships Internationally Fast
I’d been meaning to actually purchase something from Amazon Japan for a while (for a long period of time they didn’t ship outside of Japan). I just ordered a stack of denim magazines last week, and they arrived in five days! I was surprised they arrived so fast. My experience with Amazon USA has always [...]
Do it with Denim: Competition
If you’re a budding fashion designer or furniture designer, you should enter the “Do it with denim” competition. http://www.doitwithdenim.org.au/ This year’s theme is Discoveries. The trick with the rules is that you have to make your item out of denim jeans, not denim fabric off the roll. The prizes don’t seem that exciting to me, [...]
Leather Kit: Card Pocket
Did my first piece of leathercraft. Pretty simple pocket wallet. Two seams to hand sew… pre-hole-punched. Here’s the kit before I started. One piece of pre-cut and punched raw leather. Waxed linen thread. Needles. I couldn’t find info on how to tie off the threads, so I just back-sewed three steps, and then cut. It [...]
Repairs
Last week I made some repairs to the Eternals. I should’ve taken pics before the repairs, but I’m getting lazy with this blog. Hah. Here’s the result. The seat had a crease which was starting to wear through, so I used a swatch of denim on the inside and just sewed back and forth. The [...]
Off Topic: Hanshin Tigers
This doesn’t really relate to the theme of this blog, but it happened while I was in Japan in March. On 10th March divers finally found the statue of the Colonel Sanders in the Dotombori Canal… it had been lost for 24 years. When I first saw the statue on the TV I couldn’t understand [...]
Stefan Sagmeister Deconstructs Levis
Artist Stefan Sagmeister deconstructed a pair of Levis, including separating the warp and weft. He then pulled the components together into an artwork. http://www.papermag.com/blogs/2009/03/stefan_sagmeister_shreds_levis.php Stefan also has a TED talk that you can watch or download.
Nautical Sweater in Breton Stripes
This is a Nautical Sweater from the Polo outlet. It’s cotton x cashmere. (Thanks to Anon for the update on the naming and the link to the Saint James originals. Nice.)
Samurai Belt L201HS
I got a Samurai belt from IN in Osaka. I took some pics here in comparison to my Sugar Cane garrison belt. The SC belt is broken-in now, much softer and darker… with stains. I should clean and oil/wax it soon, but I like the unevenness of the stains. The samurai belt is bigger and [...]