These denims are a pair of Levi’s 501s that had been worn within the family for years before being rediscovered while sourcing vintage Levi’s. They carry a blend of new and lived-in materials — a dialogue between past and present. The brown leather was given to me back when I was still at university, while the patch beneath it comes from a leftover piece of cotton fabric I had recently bought. Its shape was too interesting to throw away, so it found a home here.
On the other leg, the green fabric is a scrap we once used to construct one of the “Duffel Bag” jackets — a fragment from a 1960s duffel bag, its distinctive curve demanding to be reused. Beneath it lies another patch, cut from a pair of jeans sourced at a Paris flea market.
All these elements come together through the iconic COLRS embroidery and the collection label stitched quietly on the inside — uniting fragments of memory, material, and craft into a single story.