a particularly good example of Takahiro Miyashita treating familiar American clothing as raw material rather than something that needs to remain intact.
instead of distressing a conventional pair of jeans, the denim itself is broken apart and reconstructed. different washes sit beside one another, pockets appear where they normally wouldn't, and the overlocked seams that would usually be hidden inside the garment are deliberately exposed.
the result feels somewhere between a pair of worn-in jeans and a garment still showing the evidence of how it was assembled — very much in line with TheSoloist.'s approach to deconstructing familiar menswear.
