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the party was really nice. it is always great to hang out with denim nerds drinking beer. everything went smoothly until polishmike scolded me for eating too much cheese (i was really hungry!).

the samurai guys were really nice walking around saying hello to everyone at the party and handing out presents with nori-chan translating.

i look forward to the next event! thanks gordon!

p.s. nice to see chicken taking back his role of photo celebrity. it looks like he misses the photo action from dd+1

hey just wanted to say hello from tokyo! i can't wait to see how things are going when i get back to nyc in a week.

so here comes the big question. today is august 11, and i have the jeans in my hands as i type this right now.

should we start the whole thing today? or, should we wait until the beginning of next month? our call, let the voting begin.

the 13th seems like a good day to start on

I took a lot more pics of the jeans, details, BIG and painting, and I have uploaded them here.

Thanks to Gordon, Chicken, Pesu, Yaz, and Noriko for a fun day!!!!

Noriko at work, Chicken with a birds eye view, and Pesu.

The patch was pre-shrunk by Gordon. Imagine Iron Chef crossed with Blue in Green with Gordon boiling the patch over a hot stove with cooking chopsticks.

The pic shows before and after. Although it is hard to see in the picture, the shrunk version looks tight and has an interesting texture with the artwork becoming more defined.

Chicken, Pesu, and Gordon sketching some "13" designs before the painting started. Pesu did about 20-30 variations before the final one was chosen.

back from BIG after taking loads of photos. now have to download and sort through them. gordon also took some video!

everything is in place now, so fingers crossed for this weekend!

my beautiful new white macbook now has indigo stained palm rests. it actually looks less like indigo and more just a generic dark stain. everyone things i am filthy!

i didn't realise but my hands become covered in indigo after playing with jeans all day.

Where are Cone Mills located?

Greensboro, North Carolina

http://www.cone.com/

Oh just one more thing. I mentioned that the next season Evisu will have all Japanese denim, but there will be some new pieces with denim from Cone.

The denim for many of the earliest vintage jeans that inspired Evisu's creation was made by Cone Mills. Returning to this source, Evisu will have a few pieces made with denim from Cone's White Oak mill where some of the earliest jeans were made.

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its his site... let him talk about this shit.

these days i am retired from superfuture, and now spend my time working at evisu. i can't give up supertalk though and still do the odd spot of mod'ing!

all of the mentioned items are not for sale so I am not selling anything. just reporting some news.

Evisu is totally re-discovering their roots, and I am so pleased to see it.

So many people travelled to Japan in the 90's and stumbled up these amazing denim jeans that were quite unlike anything else available. Popularity increased, and there were some unfortunate problems with licensing, counterfeiting, and quality as the label suffered from growing pains. These problems are hopefully in the past.

Each season the line improves with items like the green caste broken twill japanese selvedge jeans above, and some incredible denim from Kaihara, Kuroki, and Kurabo.

Next season, Evisu really hits their stride with 100% Japanese denim across men's and women's lines, a cheaper price, a return to the godhead patch, vintage details like burr rivets and pillow fold belt loops, a slimmer back pocket seagull, and for the first time in years, a 100% made in Japan line that was done in collaboration with the Siotani twins.

There are lots of other exciting things underway, like the opening of Evisu's first retail store (Tokyo transplanted to NYC), Blue In Green stocking Evisu and working together on the Dirty Dozen + 1 project, a choice of blank pockets for those die-hard fans as well as being able to have your seagull painted for the first time in the US.

is there any selvedge on the inside? that is a good thing to look for.

Evisu makes several lines of jeans with different price points and fabrics, so that is why there is such debate and confusion over Evisu.

For these particular jeans, they are made from Japanese Kuroki denim, and have an incredible unique and varied tone and texture to the denim. They are heavier weight which you can really feel the nicer quality. As Cheep said there are a lot of hidden details that you would never see unless you knew were to look that are very true to vintage origins. This model has a vintage fit which is a little bit loose.

They are great jeans. I have a pair.

i found kyoto breathtaking.

the first time i went it was adhoc and i was zig zagging all over and it was a lot of travel and not a lot of sites.

the second time i was there with a japanese friend and we spent a fair amount of time in one of the guide centers finding out the best places to see in 2 days. there were incredible walking routes mapped out going from temple to temple winding through the historic old parts of town. going on some of the suggested walking routes saved so much travel hassle and meandering down old little streets was simply a pleasure.

kyoto is a big city with 100's of sites spread all over, so it really makes sense to plan your visit.

also, i lived in japan for 3 years so i pretty much had my fair dose of big cities, so having an escape to kyoto was both inspiring and relaxing. if you were only in japan for a week you can still see great temples in major cities so i would probably skip kyoto.

hedi slimane had his farewell dior party at the beatrice. that totally trumps the misshapes for hipster cred.

The note about the gloves is a very crucial point--maybe Apple will slang special touch-screen sensitive iPhone gloves in the near future?

i can confirm this.

here is a leaked photo from apple

(side note: apple are so fucking on trend for everything. not only is the glove at the height of technology, the model is rocking wayfarer's!)

They had that planned but from what I heard it was a little rushed. They had to up the speed otherwise that iPhone commercial with a youtube video would be a tragedy.

but the tv ads are all done using wifi, not edge. so it can go as fast as your internet connection.

who sold them?

i can't stand people selling fake pieces, especially on a place like this. it is evil!

sounds like you just got yourself some fake evisu. at least the price is good for fakes, though

2002 is selvedge, non cinch-back, and doesn't have stitched gulls, and are usually more expensive.

total bummer, dude!

hey this is a great find!

i think evisu has moved on, but they haven't ignored their original philosophy. they are still making the same jeans with japanese denim, in original styles. here is a link to see what i mean >> http://www.evisu.com/blog/2007/06/13/nevada-prototype-jeans/

ok gang - i'll be down at nam son at 7pm with sidneylo, holoteker, polishmike, roland, and anyone else who is up for it. i just invited gordon from BIG so hopefully he might make it too.

and then on sunday we can log into supertalk and search how to get vomit and blood off our jeans after a big night out!