Back to homepage / Live news True blue tradition: how Japan's coveted jeans are made Kojima-ajino (Japan) (AFP) – Call it an antidote to fast fashion: Japanese jeans hand-dyed with natural ...

How Japan's coveted jeans are madeCall it an antidote to fast fashion: Japanese jeans hand-dyed with natural indigo and weaved on a clackety vintage loom, then sold at a premium to global denim ...

Japan's jeans journey'Niche' reputation Denim-making flourished from the 1960s in Kojima, which has a long history of cotton-growing and textile-making. In the Edo period, the town produced woven ...

Jeans made here aren’t cheap, ranging in price from a relatively affordable 33,000 yen ($230) per pair to those made by top craftsmen, which go for 200,000 yen ($1,400) or more.

KOJIMA, Japan (AP) — Denim, that All-American fabric, is all about being Japanese in the town of Kojima, where the main road is named Jeans Street, with real pairs of ...

“They’re 32-oz., indigo, rope-dyed, Japanese selvedge denim,” he says as he stands a pair of the heavy jeans on their cuffs. “Guaranteed uncomfortable or your money back.” ...

Levi's Readies Special Made-in-Japan 1922 501XX Jeans: The selvedge-denim silhouette is a "stitch-for-stitch" replica of a pair of archival Levi's 501 jeans from 1922.

KOJIMA-AJINO (JAPAN) - Call it an antidote to fast fashion: Japanese jeans hand-dyed with natural indigo and weaved on a clackety vintage loom, then sold at a premium to global denim connoisseurs.

The market for Japanese jeans "has grown in the last 10 to 15 years", said Michael Pendlebury, a tailor operating a repair shop in Britain called The Denim Doctor.

Masataka Suzuki, president of Momotaro Jeans, posing during an interview with AFP in the Kojima district of Okayama. Image: Philip FONG / AFP C all it an antidote to fast fashion: Japanese jeans ...