Denim's Things #34 Top Denim Brands

Fashion | Denim's Things |#34 Top Denim Brands

1. Levis

Levis brand has been sold in over than 110 countries, levis motto is to let the individual from around the world to express their personal style. Levis has been known as the leading jeans wear and become the classic American style. The history of Levis begin from the invention of riveted clothing by Jacob Davis.

And in 1873, Levis Strauss found the company. Many people agreed that levis jeans have become the most recognizable and imitated clothing in around the world. Levis can capture the generation want and loyalty jeans lover.

2. Guess

Guess the symbol of young, sexy and adventurous lifestyle. Guess was found in 1981 by the Marciano brothers. Marciano was France people who move to America to pursuit their dreams. They European style give innovation touch to the industry. Guess denim design is stonewashed, slim fitting jeans, the 3 zip marilyn.

Year by years Guess invite people to pursuit their dreams, Guess ambassador are Claudia Schiffer, Carre Otis, Eva Herzigova, Anna Nicole Smith, Laetitia Casta, Carla Bruni and Naomi Campbell. Nowadays, Guess has 1,200 stores in over 80 countries.

3. Diesel

Diesel brand was become innovative international design company, they has sold clothing and jeans in 80 countries with almost 50 company owned stores. Diesel was founded in 1978, Renzo Rosso was a visionary, his vision is to be the leader of fashion brands. Renzo want to have dynamic and imaginative line of  clothing and jeans. That’s way he always opens to the new designer with broad stylistic freedom.  The brand name was found in 1978 and today diesel has profit more than 330 Million dollars.

4. True Religion

True Religion was built to give standard of American denim that timeless appeal and vintage aesthetic. This brand built in 2002 and always serve the high quality of jeans. True Religion is made for people that not follow trends. True Religion was distributed to 50 countries in six continents.

5. 7 For All Mankind

This young brand has become world premiere premium denim brand. Build in 2000, this brand has quickly gained respect among the jeans and denim lover. The 7 For All Mankind motto are to give a perfect jeans to the individual who are passionate about fashion, art and the modern world around them. 7 for All Mankind has designed jeans for women, jeans for men and sold in over 80 countries.

6. Miss Sixty

Miss Sixty was the answer to the absence of the women denim market. This brand was established in 1991 and rapidly become international reference fashion brand. The Miss Sixty give unique and original style denim for women.

7. Lee

Henry David lee was opened the first Lee garmen factory in Salina, Kansas 1889. In '20, Lee make new innovation to his manufactured denim, the zipper fly. Today the Lee gives more style, fits and features to his Denim and jeans.

8. Calvin klein

Calvin Klein is one of the most respected designer in the fashion World. His journey is begin when he was five, calvin always wanted to be a fashion designer. Now he have a global fashion industri through his 40 year of career.

9. Wrangler

Wrangler motto was to give American freedom with his jeans, The believe that jeans has to be presented the spirit of the people who work hard, fun and have skills. The first pair of wrangler were made in 1947.

10. G-Star RAW

G-Star RAW aims is to give high quality and fashionable jeans. G-Star was first launched in 1983 with specializing in Car Street Clothes in Netherland. They also produced Jeans, and in 1996, G-Star launched his first Raw Denim Brand. Justin Bieber and Tom Delonge are usualy wear this brand for their occasion event.

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Denim's Things #25 - 7 cool ways to wear jeans

Fashion | Denim's Things |#25 7 cool ways to wear jeans

7 cool ways to wear jeans tips

 Denim fashion now become popular again. And there are variety of denim model so you can mix match on your collection. Although everyone have jeans or at least has one model in jacket or vest, but not everyone know how to look good with their denim. Try follow this tips to make sure your collection more lasting without depending on the trend fashion.

1. Follow the rules of thigh
This ways is to make your look more slim, first is you have to find the widest part of your thigh, then look straight pant from thigh to the bottom. If you had average size of thigh, bootcut jeans can be your option. If you had big thigh, long and more wider jeans can fit for you. If you have a slim feet, skinny jeans can be your best friend

2. Make sure the length
Own a jeans which can be wear when you using flat shoes, and other jeans when you're using high heels. The maximum of your jeans length is 1 cm above the ground. If more short than that, your jeans will looks not good.

3. Wear white denims
different shape of your jeans will affirm your bodyline. So make sure you wearing a model jeans that fit with your bodyline. If your butt is full like Jennifer Lopes, then you can wear bootcut jeans with wider on the bottom part this will make your leg look more long. Denim with straight model and simple design in back pocket can be an option too. If you had body like the sand watch shape, you can uses jeans with stretch material that will fit in your waist. Overall if you want to look more slim, you can use skinny jeans or bootcut jeans.


4. Don't Wash To much
Except you spoil something to your jeans or you find a dirty spot in your jeans, you don't need to washing jeans everytime you have used it. Washing will make your jeans fading, losing it's shape, and more worn faster. When your washing your jeans, you must turned the inside out the jeans



5. "Denim on denim"
Combine denim with denim, for example : jeans shirt with jeans, now is more tolerable. But you should combine denim with other different color tone. Example, don't combine white denim with white jeans, or black jeans with black or bright with bright and soon. Your performance looks will look more heavier

6. Experiment with color
If you dare and love of change you must try jeans with red color, yellow, or even green

7. Recycle into short
Bored with one of your jeans? or on the feet jeans has been torn? Just cut your jeans and transform into short. The trick is wear your jeans, then tagging it where you want to cut it, put your jeans to floor then start cutting with same line for the two legs.

7 cool ways to wear jeans just for you

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Denim's Things #22 Gemma Arterton and her jeans

Fashion | Denim's Things |#22 Gemma Arterton and her jeans

Gemma Arterton enjoy wears jeans

Gemma Arterton is a stunning actress, she enjoy wearing a jeans everyday, Now Gemma become the ambassador of denim brand G-Star RAW for the Spring and summer 2012 collection. Gemma said that she feels happiest wearing a jeans and denim because gemma arterton felt relax and stylish.

In the making of new video for G-Star and Vice Style, Gemma said she always wear jeans everyday and has many type of jeans such as skinny jeans, bootcut jeans, bell bottom jeans, raw jeans. Gemma said that she feel more comfortable wearing jeans rather than dresses. “the great things that all these jeans and denim brands are going well because for me it’s an easy way to dress and it’s stylish.” Gemma said.

Gemma also said that she doesn’t like to over thinking of her appearance and with using jeans and denim she look relax and stylish.

Gemma Arterton feel disappointed that she was not allow to wearing jeans in red carpet

Actress from England “Gemma Arterton” is a ambassador of G-Star jeans, with his beautiful brown hair, she has been chosen to be ambassador in fall season. Gemma love to wear jeans, and she will be more happier if she can wear jeans in formal occasion. “Jeans is always I wear, and I’m deserves to be G-Star Model” said Gemma.

Gemma Favorite Jeans

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Denim's Things #17 5 way to keep your jeans save

Fashion | Denim's Things |#17 5 way to keep your jeans save

Carl Chiara tips and trick to treat your jeans

It's an annoying situation when your favorite jeans become to worn-out. The color starting to fade, the jeans begin to torn and your jeans not stretching well again.

According to Carl Chiara, Director of Brand Concept in Levi Strauss & Co, This is cause because wrong treatment. Denim should washing with machine every six month. In the rest you simply washing it with hand.

On The Wall Street Journal, Chiara divide trick how to treat jeans like he always do. He usualy fill water (room temperature) to bathtub (15 cm deep), then he add 2 spoon liquid soap. Then he put jeans in flat position into the bathtub. After 20 menit, he hang up the jeans and let the water to dripping until it's dry. So jeans not squeezed or rolled. With this method, the jeans will more lasting then washing with machine every week.

5 way to keep your jeans save

There's another tips or trick to treat jeans from other fashion expert:

1. Pick your jeans with high quality. Material jeans is variety depends on the jeans brand. And not easy to pick jeans that can last over the year and which is not after washing with machine repeatedly. "Check the inside area at the tip of the pants where you can find the stitching in color" Advice from Loren Cronk, the owner of Loren, Jeans store in Brooklyn, New York City. "That is the prove that jeans has been woven on it's edges.

Jeans like this commonly a vintage jeans and usualy more lasting than a jeans that has been made this day. The stuff is more thick and more heavier too.

2. Clean up the stained area first. Jeans is not always to be wash, sometime you only have to clean the stained area to keep the shape of the jeans. Chiara advices to try the glass cleaner to clean difficult stain. You can use hand soap to keep the back area of zipped clean and smell good

3. Turn the inside area of jeans to the outside. To keep the jeans color not to fade, turn the inside of jeans to the outside, Used water with room temperature to wash your jeans. If the jeans color already fading, wash your jeans with other jeans that has stronger color. Other trick, chiara version is to add vinegar in the wash. Vinegar will keep the jeans color.

4. To keep safe your jeans from torn and thin. If your jeans damaged because of washing machine, Dont use this method. Cronk suggest to use environmentally friendly detergent that without whitening. "Washing jeans without soap sometime can clean up the jeans without damaging the jeans"

If you see a hole or torn on jeans, immediatly overcome this problem. You can stitch with soft or patching from the inside. This will prevent torn more wider

5. Keep the original shape. This thing is the most damaging the shape of your jeans, when you dry your jeans in drying machine.  If you want to dry your jeans in it, make sure to set the machine in low setting.

Moving a jeans in moist condition and immediatly hang it up until dry is the most suggested. This will keep the jeans from wrinkled, shrink, and keep the original shape of your jeans. When the jeans is perfectly dry, hang up the jeans in the closet (never fold your jeans)

For jeans with stretch material, use the opposite method. put the jeans to the drying maching more longer time, this will keep the flexibility your jeans. But never to put your jeans in long time at drying machine.

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Denim's Things #15 Dare to Try Dry Denim Trend?

Fashion | Denim's Things |#15 Dare to Try Dry Denim Trend?

Dry Denim Trend

How long do you usualy wash your jeans? Right after you used it? or once in a week? or month?

If you ask to the jeans expert, when you wash your jeans or denim every day it will make your denim or jeans color quickly to fade away. in fact, lot of jeans expert suggest to wash jeans every six month.

You must be not believe, there's people who washed their jeans only once in six month

Nowadays, lot of people used this care method for jeans or denims. Denims will not been washed since the first they bought it, then the color and the shapes are allowed to be fade and loose in naturaly way because frequently usage. This method will show the real character of the jeans user.




But not all kind of jeans can be treated like that. You have to choose a jeans with classic material denim which is more thicker and stiffer. Jeans with this material is known as dry denim or raw denim, is made from material without washing process. It's different for nowadays model, which given artificial old effect, washing, and torn effect



The first time you use dry denim will feel a bit stiffer. But after frequent use, will more softer and adapted to your bodyline. Usualy there will show wrinkled fold in hip area, back of your knees or in hand fold area (usualy in jeans jacket). For some people, will show up shapes like wallet shape on back of pocket, it's because they usualy store their wallet in that area.

"This will show the characteristic and the original of the jeans. If the jeans got dirty, that's is the art of the jeans. you can say that this is your jeans" Said Jody Dhamawan, President Director Lee Cooper Indonesian, at Program launch Lee Cooper Dry Denim Challenge in MU Cafe, Jakarta.

This fold is seen as the unique part of the jeans. No need to worry to the torn part of the jeans. Jeans is made to be the worker outfit.

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