Written by Starre Vartan What could be more American than a great-fitting pair of jeans? Denim, whether as pants, jackets, dresses or skirts, is as popular in the fashion capitals of Europe as it is here (and maybe even more so). Unfortunately, denim is also one of those fabrics that has a larger impact than …
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Levi Strauss Tries To Minimize Water Use With New Jeans
# music If you thought the gloriously auto-tuned, lyrically adventurous stable of teen songs over at the Ark Music Factory were something, then please watch “My Jeans,” a video from someone named Jenna Rose, a young actress who, unlike those Ark Music amateurs, has several other videos on her resume. (Most of them are about picking out outfits. Because that is what girls are all about! Remember …
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‘My Jeans’ Music Video Reaches New Teen Music Heights [Video]
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan, is a towering genius of finance, Obama hanger-on, savior of Wall Street, and irritable dick. He’s also long liked to wear tight jeans, as his 1974 yearbook page…
Continue here: Yearbook Page Reveals Jamie Dimon’s Lifelong Tight-Jeans Obsession [Exclusive] (Gawker)
For the second consecutive quarter, half the homes sold in Brooklyn went for under half a million dollars, a psychological benchmark if there ever was one that the American Dream could be within the reach of even the skinny-jeans set. Appraisal firm Miller Samuel and mega-brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman released their third-quarter market report, which showed the median sales price dipping …
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Batten the Brownstones! Brooklyn Housing Stats Give Hope to Skinny-Jeans Set (The New York Observer)
Leonardo DiCaprio, 34, goes for a bicycle ride around Notting Hill. Pic via Bauer-Griffin.
Continue here: Catch My Mom Jeans If You Can [Open Caption] (Gawker)
The Way We Live Now: Emasculated. Figuratively, as The Man gives us a few extra pennies in Welfare even as cops yank our falafel-cart permit; and literally, because the fashion industry must sell…
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Fat Men + Skinny Jeans= Salvation [Recessionomics] (Gawker)
I wake up in bed with welts on my spine, calluses on my hands, and deep brown bruises wrapped around my hips like some creepy guy’s hands in a sketchy slow dance.
What a time to start selling $595 jeans. The free publicity potential is incredible. Across America, hacks are whipping out pocket calculators and saying, “Do you know what you could buy for $595??”…
More here: The Economy is Bad Idea Jeans [Recessionomics] (Gawker)
On Wednesday, March 5, the Ramones’ former drummer, Marky Ramone , was seated with his legs crossed on a leather couch inside a trailer parked in front of the Tommy Hilfiger store in Soho. Outside, a line stretched to the end of the block of party guests waiting to get into the store to view the line of punk-inspired clothes that Mr. Ramone designed for Mr. Hilfiger. Mr. Ramone would also be …
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Tommy Hilfiger Gets Grungy With a Line of Jeans and Leather Jackets From Marky Ramone (The New York Observer)