The latest jeans to emerge from preeminent denim brand Levi’s is a major turning point. For over a century, Levi’s got its supply of shrink-to-fit indigo-dyed selvedge denim from the historic Cone ...

Why would Kiya Babzani import a DJ from New York to spin at the grand opening of his old-school denim store? It's not as if there aren't DJs here. For that matter, there's plenty of denim. San ...

The subject of obsessive blogs and long conversations about (not) washing, Japanese selvedge denim has always attracted ardent fans and high prices. Now Topman is taking it mainstream Whether it’s ...

KOJIMA, Okayama Prefecture--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 pants flapping like flags ...

KOJIMA, Japan — 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 pants flapping like flags overhead.

Did you know a denim fabric made in Japan has its own history of development? It comes from Fukuyama, a city in the eastern part of Hiroshima Prefecture that produces about 80% of Japan’s denim fabric ...

A long-running jeans factory in the backstreets of Melbourne insists on using Japanese denim. In partnership with Kirin and the purity of its First Press brewing technique, we find out why. Few people ...

The Kojima region in Kurashiki, in what is now Okayama Prefecture, is no fresh arrival to importance in Japanese history. It gets a mention in Kojiki, the oldest surviving Japanese-language text.

In recent years, the denim market has seen an influx of sustainably-made jeans. It’s no surprise when you look at the numbers: a pair of jeans uses over 3,700 liters of freshwater in its lifecycle and ...