Styleforum Jeans: An experiment in user-generated design
10:24 am Contributed by JW
Users participation is nothing new in corporate world, but this is uncommon in fashion and denim is definitely not one of them. Styleforum jeans, created by collaboration between the titular forum and New York label 5EP, were born in Janu
ary when a user known as "LA Guy" proposed the idea to the company's co-owner, Christine Rucci. Her resulting post requesting suggestions elicited both keepers (shorter front pocket bags to keep the silhouette clean) and nonstarters (stitching around the fly to enhance the wearer's package). And despite the volume of input—the initial post had more than 400 replies—the results are commendably straightforward: a lower-rise, slimmed out version of 5EP's boot-cut jeans, handmade from raw Japanese selvage. Only 200 will be made—eight have extra-long inseams for taller wearers—with all but 60 earmarked for forum members and Denim Bar, who helped produce them. "They can even tell when I've made the slightest variations in fabrics," Rucci says of her new codesigners. "Those guys are up on everything."
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2 Comments
3 January 2008 at 7:51 am
This is Godmother - Owner / Designer of 5EP Jeans and the photo featured is not our jean and the fit is not anything like the jean. We can provide a photo.
Thanks,
Godmother@denimafia.com
4 January 2008 at 6:29 pm
Really? But those photos were from 5EP website. Perhaps you could provide me by e-mail(published here) with the photo of 5EP jeans. :)