Here’s a very good excuse to check out the newly-opened Santa Monica Place: J Brand Jeans and Lucky Magazine have partnered up to present J Brand’s fall collection preview. J Brand CEO Jeff Rudes and the J Brand retail specialist team will be on hand to help shoppers find their perfect jean, and customers will receive a gift with a purchase!
DEETS
Saturday, August 28 (2-4 p.m.)
BLOOMINGDALE’S B-STYLE BAR
Santa Monica Place
315 Colorado Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90401
– Kathy Ng Hassan
Paige Premium Denim Super-Tanzania. Photo: Paige PR.
Unlike its current denim shorts in the Tanzania wash, Paige Premium Denim has kicked it up a notch with the Super-Tanzania wash: a super stretch jean which comes in the Verdugo Jegging and the Curson Cargo (coming September). The jegging comes without the trademark waistband lining, for added flexibility. Cargo skinny jeans are super hot right now, so if you dare to go military-camouflage crazy, then this is the jean for you. Note: the Super-Tanzania wash is not currently listed on the Web site. Contact your local store or retailer for pre-orders.
– Kathy Ng Hassan
The Warehouse Store Pop-Up Outlet at The Block at Orange.
Have you noticed all the vacancies at your local mall? Obviously, retail hasn’t completely rebounded from the slow economy, but that doesn’t slow down the folks at The Warehouse Sale! Look for TWS’s Pop-up Outlet Stores across the country. The Smarty Pants at TWS are filling a void: they get on a short-term lease at your local mall, they bring business to your area, you save money, the denim brands get Pop-up store benefits — it’s a win-win!
I say, thank god! Do you really want to drive out to the convention center anyways and pay, like, $12 for parking when you’re trying to actually save money on your designer jeans? I thought so.
SEE THE LATEST TWS POP-UP OUTLETS
– Kathy Ng Hassan
Have you been watching the new street style videos series “Real Girls Real Style” online at Who What Wear? I’m hooked! Better than static images — although style pics are always cool — you get the sense that you’re there, checking out the latest style muse in the flesh. Thanks to the wonders of editing, everyone seems so well-spoken and knowledgeable about their style choices. Check out the embed vid above to view the interview with a pair of sisters who rocks her own denim look. As Season 1 is shot in Los Angeles, you’ll see plenty of denimy looks.
– Kathy Ng Hassan
Dang! A 38″ inseamer. You know there’ll be a bunch of much shorter dudes sporting it just because they can, and likely walking around with the pant legs looking like they’re melting into their sneakers.
– Kathy Ng Hassan
From Los Angeles Times:
Lakers guard Sasha Vujacic, whose two free throws helped pad the Los Angeles team’s lead over the Boston Celtics in the last minute of Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Thursday, was a fit model for Rock & Republic’s new SV18, named for Vujacic’s jersey number… Click here to read more.
If you’re a dad, papa, male parental unit, or whatever you preferred to be called, the South Bay’s Manhattan Denim is throwing a pre-Father’s Day after hours party at their store tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. They’ll be throwing some burgers on the grill while you hang out and shop for your favorite premium denim brands at Father’s Day discount prices. You don’t have to be a dad. All are welcome. And, I did mention they’ll be serving beer, right?
If you’re shopping for dad and don’t know what to get, consider Manhattan Denim’s MD Giftcard.
DEETS
Friday, June 18 (6PM to 9PM)
920 Manhattan Ave
Downtown Manhattan Beach, CA
(310) 798-JEAN
– Kathy Ng Hassan
Bottom left: Railcar Fine Good's Steven Dang at his design table. Bottom right: a women's denim prototype.
You may wonder what inspires our favorite denim designers. Would it be a movie star? An oil spill in the gulf? For Steven Dang of Railcar Fine Goods, it might just be a classic motorcycle, a vintage car or even the inner workings of a train. An engineer by trade, Steven Dang got tired of tinkering with cars on the side.
Recently, I had the opportunity to visit Railcar’s design studio in Los Angeles. He pulls up a heavy duty sewing factory-style stool for me to sit in and practically bowled me over when he showed me his ginormous roll of selvedge denim. Of course, I had to touch it. Amid the scattered patterns and denim prototypes stacked on one of his drafting tables, sat a cup of coffee. Calm and well-spoken, Steven admits he doesn’t get much sleep between his engineer work and Railcar.
“Everything we do is by hand.” Steven explains to me that his workwear-inspired shirts don’t just come out of a cookie cutter. From the cut of the sleeves and shirtail, to the shoulder panel and even the flow of the fabric’s design, he is careful to mirror the patterns appropriately. “Visually, it has to make sense.”
I did scratch my head at first, wondering why a man who repairs the Metro Gold Line by day (actually, he does that at night), has any interest in fashion design. “I love working with my hands and building things, and I see what I do [with Railcar Fine Goods] as that.”
Of course, I had to ask him if he had a fave pair of jeans he couldn’t part with. “I don’t. But I catch myself wearing the prototype of my Spikes fit all the time lately. This will probably be that pair.”
Described as ” Industrial Americana fitted clothes,” Steven sews small productions and sampling from his quaint (and relatively immaculate) home studio and uses select factories in L.A. to take care of details. “I don’t like using mass production factories because small details get lost in the production process; and, I never use overseas manufacturing.”
So far, so good. Steven has successfully garnered himself some upscale and niche stockists. As we spoke, American Rag World Denim Bar was signing on to carry Railcar.
Look Out For:
Fall - Women’s denim
Next season - Men’s Sonny straight leg jeans
– Kathy Ng Hassan
This is exciting. Paige Premium Denim is throwing a joint sample sale with a Michael Stars, a quintessential SoCal tee shirt brand that has grown to be much more. I hope they have plenty of Shine tops and jeans-friendly tanks for wear-it-now instant gratification. Otherwise, the $40 Paige Premium jeans deal for men and women sounds mighty good.
Via 944 Magazine:
Saturday 06.12.2010 @ 8:00am
Venue: Los Angeles
Paige Denim Sample Sale wth Michael Stars
Saturday, June 12
8 am - 3 pm
12955 South Chadron Ave., Hawthorne, CA 90250
>Click here for more information.
– Kathy Ng Hassan
This summer, stylish folks don’t have to sacrifice style for the weather. Sure, it’d be easier to just go naked; but, that would be boring, no? Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, AllSaints Spitalfields has the right formula for the Goth who happens to love the sun. They’ve got the right combination for the denim aficionados who crave edgy construction (drop-crotch, anybody?) and clean lines. They’re sensitive to the needs of the model/rock star/mogul in you. AllSaints has the summer denim shorts worth wearing.
AllSaints Women Karst Military Jacket.
AllSaints Mens Graphic T-Shirts.
AllSaints Spitalfields, originally from the U.K., has gone pretty much global at this point, especially with the inception of their e-commerce site which sells primarily in GBP or USD. In the U.S., if you happen to live in Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City or San Francisco, then you’re a lucky bloke or blokette, because you can stroll into their Rock ‘n’ Roll/punk-inspired shops which carry their full line of clothing, accessories and homeware.
– Kathy Ng Hassan
If you’re wondering what you’re doing on Saturday, May 15 (3 to 6 p.m.), then add this to your fashion conquest calendar: 7 For All Mankind is having a fête to launch their new Jonathan Adler for 7 For All Mankind line at their South Robertson store in Los Angeles. It’s a sip and shopper (refreshments, music, shopping and gift with purchase!). Don’t miss this limited edition men’s and women’s collection.
For more information on this new collaboration, refer to our recent post.
– Kathy Ng Hassan
The Denim Therapy Company was created in 2006 with the goal to fix any hole, hem, or broken denim regardless of damage severity. And to do so with unconditional love, carefully repairing all denim as if it was our own.
With the expertise, experience, and passion of two fashion-forward friends, Denim Therapy was first introduced to New York City. Because the repair is not a patch – and is much better than a patch, Denim Therapy’s innovative jean repair solution provided all of us with a new way to solve denim problems. It was the first opportunity to have our favorite jeans reconstructed, rather than poorly patched by a dry cleaner.
The response to the unique repair, exceptional customer service, and overall convenience of an online repair service was tremendous.
The Denim Therapy buzz traveled quickly from NYC on to Los Angeles to Chicago and Miami. With denim enthusiasts sending in their favorite jeans from as far away as Sydney, London, and Hong Kong, Denim Therapy has truly become a denim doctor to jeans of all brands and origins.
Three years later, thousands of jeans repaired, and over 20 leading fashion news recommendations, Denim Therapy maintains the same goal that started the company. At the end of the day, we are happy to know that with so much of our love pouring into everyone’s favorite denim, there is that much more love in the world.
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