Jean Queen

Fears that more big names will disappear from the High Street mounted yesterday as store chain D2 Jeans hit cash trouble, putting hundreds of jobs on the line.

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Jeans giant latest high street casualty

From dissolving dresses to blue jeans that suck nitrogen oxide from the air, Helen Storey’s designs are meant to be sustainable

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Yes, certain styles of jeans are OK in the workplace

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Why bother even making a video when you’ve got these guys? A group called the High 5 Collective is putting out unofficial music videos for artists that are so well-done, everyone is giving them well-deserved credence.

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Mr. Little Jeans’ Arcade Fire Cover Of ‘The Suburbs’ Gets A Video

he husband and wife team behind the hugely successful howies ethical clothing brand is set to launch a new venture in Cardigan – designing and manufacturing high quality premium jeans.

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A new machine which uses 3D technology to scan a woman’s body and help her pick out jeans to suit her body shape has been installed in high street stores.

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As a shopper, have you ever pondered what sort of mark-up the retailer has slapped on to the pair of Levi’s jeans or Adidas runners?

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Beth Jeans Houghton is back with – what else? – a song about a polyhedron with 20 vertices and 30 edges … As we all know, a dodecahedron, in geometric terms, is any polyhedron with 12 faces. You don’t need me to tell you, either, that it always has 20 vertices and 30 edges. What you may not know, however, is that it’s also the name of the new single – the first since she signed to Mute – from …

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New music: Beth Jeans Houghton – Dodecahedron

With his polite smile and AK47 swinging menacingly at the people standing round him, it was hard to tell whether Younis Massoud was a thug or a friend. Perhaps he was both.

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Libya: soldiers in jeans try hard to look menacing

Property taxes were one of the biggest issues in last year’s gubernatorial campaign, but it was seen largely as a suburban issue affecting upstate and Long Island homeowners, not the vast ranks of city residents who tend to rent. But it turns out property taxes have consequences right here in the five boroughs, as The Brooklyn Paper reports that The Last Artist in All of Williamsburg may be …

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