Object: Man's jeans
Brand:
Studio D'Artisan
(Japanese, founded 1979)
Date: 2015
Medium: Cotton
Country: Japan
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: 2015.67.1
DescriptionMan's denim WW1 Model jeans; five pocket, cinch belt; brands double arch pocket stitching and label with two pigs pulling at a pair of jeans
Label Text:Studio D’Artisan is the oldest brand of the “Osaka Five”—a group of Japanese denim companies renowned for reproductions of historic denim known as “new vintage.” Levi’s® is particularly revered within this circle, which can be seen here in the whimsical play on the brand’s double-arch (or “arcuate”) pocket stitching and famous leather label: rather than two horses, two pigs pull apart a pair of jeans. These jeans are based on a pair of World War I-era Levi’s®.
Exhibitions:
- Denim: Fashion’s Frontier