Kato denim

[Neilfuji]

hello,

as a few of you have asked I just wanted to say the first part of our archive is open now, I'll be working on the rest over the next few weeks...sorry if it's a bit basic but we're just trying it out and will polish it up as we go along, any and all comments are welcome

www.bomberairport.co.uk follow the links

thanks

Neil

[coleslawyum]

Hello NeilFuji. Just wondering how we can get our hands on this product? Thanks.

[Neilfuji]

Hello Colelawyum,

sorry we're still working on the site/archive, but if you see something there you like use the link on the main page, or if you let me know where you live I'll let you know if there is a stockest in your area

thanks

Neil

[coleslawyum]

Hello Colelawyum,

sorry we're still working on the site/archive, but if you see something there you like use the link on the main page, or if you let me know where you live I'll let you know if there is a stockest in your area

thanks

Neil

Hello Neil, I'm usually based in the US/NYC area. Thanks!

[Neilfuji]

Hello Cole,

we have a stockist in NYC, If Soho, there downtown, only carry a little and I do not know there price point, i'm out of the office right now but will post there phone number as soon as I'm back, the archive has been down most of today, sorry about that, but will be running (kind of) now

all the prices include PP worldwide so if you can't find it at If then we're happy to help

thanks

Neil

[poly800rock]

no size smalls in the jackets?

[Neilfuji]

hi,

yes there are but we're still working on the store part of the site, it is a work in progress so please bear with us, it a new thing for the company and we're only selling archive product,

give us a week

Neil

[xcoldricex]

they have shit on yoox. pm me if you want a coupon of sorts.

[tweeds]

Sorry but due to a 'hacking problem' we've been forced to close the site for a while...be back on Monday

Sorry and thank you for understanding

what happened, neil?

damn hackers

good luck with the work in progress. i'll be following.

[Neilfuji]

Hey Tweedlesinpink,

someone some how changed the pictures to another denim brand, we've taken it all down and are starting again, it's not a bad thing it all need to be upgraded anyway.

I found out first thing this morning and I think I know who it was, the UK 'fashion' industry is full of little boys playing at being grown ups, don't worry it will be harder to hack this time and hopefully look a lot better too

Neil

[nappyhead jenkins]

Hey Neil

got to see the stuff before it was hacked I was really into some of the hoodedjackets I am also in the NYC area would love to go see the stuff in person do you have an address for the store in NYC that stocks it?

[Neilfuji]

Hello all,

...

I just wanted to say the site is now back up, I want to remind you that it's just archive not current season product

www.bomberairport.co.uk

Archive link

Thanks

Neil

[digger]

love the brand brand mate. one love

d

[tweeds]

quite coincidentally, i chanced upon this in a book i bought at kinokuniya in bangkok...

[Neilfuji]

thank you sir.....

nice picture

Neil

[tweeds]

no idea what it means though, i have to stop buying books in languages i don't understand.

[Roulette]

Haha. I do it too. I usually just look at the pictures and pretend that i know what its saying. But i learnt german like that.

[Neilfuji]

got a house full of the 'pretty picture, no idea what there saying' magazine

love'em

Neil

[tweeds]

good to know Neil...that means i'm not alone.

but you can speak japanese?

on the Kato side, how often do you guys release new jeans is it by season like the western brands, or individually at staggered intervals like samurai?

[Neilfuji]

You're so not alone on this....I think most of us in here have done it at some point, I have verbal skills (limted to my needs and denim) but do not read Japanese, never got my head around kanji, I'll get my wife to look at this if you want, she loves my denim "problem' as she calls it

with Kato, we work to a season base with the shirting and Jackets but the jeans is kind of when and where we're happy with them, the stores work on the season for there buying but there are a few that understand the process better and buy at the release times, some of it as with many small denim brands in the production times, with the weaving process included in that it can take time to develop what we trying to do, with Kato san it also a question of geting perfect which does take time

Neil

[minx]

just visited site, what's smallest available size?

products look fab!

[Opie]

The rise of the Kato thread!

Just recieved the buckleback version from Superdenim:

(http://www.superdenim.co.uk/prodpage.asp?productid=25)

and one of the few questions Lewis couldn't answer was if they were hank or rope dyed. The price would suggest ropedyeing, but they seem so similar to my jomons in both fabric and color that i'm not sure.

So can anyone help me out?

I'm crossing my hands for ropedyed so i can parallel-participate in the Dry Bones contest!

[Neilfuji]

The rise of the Kato thread!

Just recieved the buckleback version from Superdenim:

(http://www.superdenim.co.uk/prodpage.asp?productid=25)

and one of the few questions Lewis couldn't answer was if they were hank or rope dyed. The price would suggest ropedyeing, but they seem so similar to my jomons in both fabric and color that i'm not sure.

So can anyone help me out?

I'm crossing my hands for ropedyed so i can parallel-participate in the Dry Bones contest!

hello Opie,

it's Hank dyed, using an older process they dip direct into the indigo fermenting pot rather than straining the dye before use.

http://repeattofade.blogspot.com/2007/12/kato-in-sweden.html

Neil

[Opie]

Damn, you still around?

Well that means goodbye to contest and hello to the cheapest pair of hankdyed jeans i've ever laid my eyes upon. Can you tell us how many dips?

Also very interested in if the chambray waistcoat still exists somewhere out there in a size xs?

Edit:

just read the page.

"One of the most interesting things is that almost all colors used to color Kato's fabrics come from nature. This because they simply found that these colors yielded the best results and not because of some environmentalist fad."

Made my day!

[tweeds]

chambray shirt - in fact kato shirting are all pretty much individual pieces of art as well.

tried on some of the older models of the jeans in singapore and had my mind blown. i couldn't find anything in the store that fit me (all ridiculously big) but the crazy loose threads, unorthodox pocket shapes and above all the colour and texture of the denim had me sold.

Opie, are you in the UK? any idea if these are sold anywhere in london?

[Opie]

Nah, i wish. Right now i'm in China (You know of any retailers in Shanghai?), but last time i saw Kato back home in Denmark was in magazin in copenhagen.

I had the same experience as you regarding the sizing though. Everything was to large. I'm normaly a smedium, and i would have been perfect in a xs.

That's why i was so happy to find a pair of size 28 (real 29) of these.

I'll have some pics up by tommorow btw.

[slowdownarthur]

Kato rising!

Glad to see the Kato interest is growing - I'm wearing my bucklebacks ( kindly given by Lewis at superdenim after I loaned my other pair to a Denim exhibition!)

The sizing is a bit on the big side but the denim is amazing and I really like the unfinishedness of the hanging threads...i've been wearing these since the end of the summer - no sign of any fading - the dye is so deep in the denim.

...I really like the collection shown on repeattofade - would love to get some shirts and a jacket....

[Slub]

For London, try The Library in South Kensington.

I picked up a pair of Kato there in January - half price in the sales. Haven't worn them too much, got too many others in rotation, but the denim is beautiful.

[Neilfuji]

Damn, you still around?

Well that means goodbye to contest and hello to the cheapest pair of hankdyed jeans i've ever laid my eyes upon. Can you tell us how many dips?

Also very interested in if the chambray waistcoat still exists somewhere out there in a size xs?

Edit:

just read the page.

"One of the most interesting things is that almost all colors used to color Kato's fabrics come from nature. This because they simply found that these colors yielded the best results and not because of some environmentalist fad."

Made my day!

Hello Opie,

Yes, I'm still around.....;-)) been on a bit of a hiatus working on another collection with a new concept label, but Kato' is still my passion, I simple don't get to answer/respond to all the posts, sorry but it hard enough keeping the development and standards going, happy to hear you've not forgotten about us.....

we drip as many times as it takes to get the colour right, is the simple answer, because we use a drip and lock process it takes time to get the depth of colour and over night dips allow deeper dyeing....long and very enjoyable process, spend way to much time in the dye houses...relaxing

hi Tweeds, how are you? sorry I've been away for so long, will try harder

slowdownarther, happy to hear you're enjoying the jeans, the idea of the incomplete thread is part of the whole 'tool project' idea, the jeans are not finished until you finish them we all wear our denim to destruction that wear and that life we give the cloth is part of the garment, more so than the 'finished' garment leaving the factory

thank you for your kind words

Neil

[Skeese]

Opie, are you in the UK? any idea if these are sold anywhere in london?

Sold at...

The Library, 268 Brompton Road, London, SW3 2AS, 020 7589 6569

Start London, 59 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3QQ, 020 7739 8302