In a past life, this writer sold jeans by the dozen—but he struggled to find the right pair for himself. A fateful encounter with OrSlow's masterful dungarees led him to denim zen.

Call it an antidote to fast fashion: Japanese jeans hand-dyed with natural indigo and weaved on a clackety vintage loom, then sold at a premium to global denim connoisseurs. Unlike their mass ...

I’m quite a Japanese denim fan and have been ordering custom-made Okayama "aka-mimi" (red ears) jeans for decades. For the uninitiated, “red ears” refer to a denim fabric woven with a ...

Classic American straight-leg jeans, workwear-inspired Japanese selvedge denim, baggy 90s fits—all of the best men's jeans look absolutely stellar when you turn on dark mode. It’s no wonder ...

For my money, the jean that does that is the raw-denim Wrangler Cowboy Cut for $40 ... high-quality Americana are actually over in Japan. You'll probably know Kapital, but there are smaller ...

The right pair of men’s jeans isn't about price tags or designer ... brings architectural sensibility to denim. Here, Japanese fabric gains sculptural presence through precise pleating and ...

Case in point: this pair of ecru (off-white, to you and me) jeans from Pure Blue Japan, and imported by the denim savants over at Blue in Green Soho. Cut for a regular straight fit, they boast a ...

The onetime favorite of goth kids and German DJs has edged out the indigo stuff for a reason: it's way more badass.