My friend and colleague Kate Dries asked me yesterday why seemingly every piece of denim currently in stores is fringed and frayed (hopefully NOT to this extreme degree). In case you happened to be wondering, too, I will tell you!
“Jeans are back, as Vogue is telling us, so,” Paris Hilton baby-whispers from underneath a pile of her own forgotten clothing in a recent video for vogue.com.
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There are so many kinds of jeans, that Dr. Seuss himself would have no trouble filling a book called New Jeans, Old Jeans, White Jeans, Blue Jeans. And on the page where he mentions “frayed-hem mayhem,” you’d find a photo of a furry Seussian character throwing a pair of blue jeans into a blender in a desperate attempt…
Hey, remember low-rise jeans? That trend from the early-aughts that looked universally terrible on everyone? The style of pants that are the most abusive thing to happen in fashion since the whale-bone corset? Well, horror of horrors, Vogue says they’re back.
Last November, noted fashion risk-taker Rihanna emerged from a New York City studio wearing gigantic jeans. Made by the London-based design house Marques'Almeida, which recently won a British Fashion Award for Emerging Womenswear Designer, the pants were fringed with the denim-loving duo's signature frayed selvage,…
Alexander Wang launches his new denim line today and, because most humans who wear denim usually do so without wearing shirts, the accompanying ads feature greased-up model Anna Ewers with her pants pulled down on a recliner cause, you know, *whispers* S-E-X. They're also pretty derivative, if you've ever seen a…
The fashion industry is panicking. They very much depend on being able to sell women entirely new wardrobes like clockwork and at the moment, they're having trouble prying those damn skinny jeans from our hands.
First Katie Holmes wore double denim on Glamour; then Zoe Saldana wore denim² on Marie Claire. Now Beyoncé's Instagrammed a shot of herself in a denim top and skirt, and Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting is in denim-on-denim in the new issue of Women's Health. It's a cruel summer?
We all know that women loving shopping for jeans—it's right up there with bikini waxes and accidentally eating the other half of the pad thai you were supposed to save for tomorrow's lunch. There is, however, that one elusive yet glorious moment when you finally find the perfect pair of denim. And now Spanx, the…
As August is just around the corner, now seems like an appropriate time to let you know that both Glamour and Marie Claire (and Katie Holmes and Zoë Saldana, by extension) are advocating for the Canadian Tuxedo as The Look for the rest of summer.
Good news, fans of sausage-casing thighs: Spanx is branching out into denim.
It's no secret that jeans can go for a remarkably long time without a visit to the washing machine, but some of us are perhaps just a little ashamed of how long we'll wear the same pair. Luckily for the slobs out there, the CEO of Levi's has personally blessed our "Eh, it'll go another week" approach.
What do you call "overalls" if there's nothing under them? Overnudes? Covernones? The Nipplechafe Express? Regardless, this week's issue of New York Magazine features Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss rocking the heck out of totally 90's fashion trend. Up next: butterfly clips and flannel shirts tied around waists.
A paradigmatic shift in denim fashion is upon us. After years of low-cut skinny-jean dominance, a new era of high-waisted jeans is coming. You cannot stop the tide from turning; your only choice is how to cope.
A hilarious Goldman Sachs analysis of the outlook for hip youth clothing (and sometimes bedbug :( ) purveyor Urban Outfitters revealed some concerning negative indicators for potential investors in the store's parent company. Namely: denim tutus. Denim tutus! Have you ever heard as a thing as crazy as a denim tutu?
For over a hundred years, U.S. dollars have been printed on a unique cotton blend paper made using scraps of denim sold in bulk by the garment industry. In fact, about 30 percent of the cotton used in our money$ came from leftover denim (the rest coming from a variety of other textile wastes). It was all fine and…
Opening Ceremony is known for being really fashion forward, but sometimes it's so forward that, like Thelma and Louise, it goes too far and just drives right off the cliff resulting in a total wreck. Case in point: these friggin' pants.
Sometimes when you mix two things that don't naturally go together, you get something magical—like salty caramels or a mule. But sometimes things go terribly wrong, and you end up with a hideous mutant. That is exactly what happened here, with this unholy combination of cargo shorts and a denim waist. (They're so ugly…
Who will mourn the death of sandblasted jeans? Very few people, hopefully, as it's the year 2012 and nobody should be rocking distressed denim anymore, but also because the process workers use to make jeans look fashionably worn-in is horrible for their health — sandblasters end up breathing in a large amount of…
