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STYLEETC. THE ART OF APPROPRIATE ACQUISITION Reinvented classics DENIM TO DYE FOR Combining long-abandoned American techniques with a precision and quality all their own, Japan’s artisanal jeans makers are seducing wearers the world over. As Kanae Hasegawa reports, their ancient ways with colour and cloth are incomparable © STRIKE GOLD Jeans from Strike Gold, one of a number of Japanese outfitters applying oldfashioned values to contemporary denim Japan’s artisanal acumen is unimpeachable: the ability to take inanimate objects – be they small or large, fixed or malleable – and to painstakingly hone, refine and perfect them into glorious objets d’art has long been a speciality of the island nation. In Okayama prefecture, 650 kilometres west of Tokyo, the material of choice among today’s craftsmen is denim. Here, on the southwestern island of Honshu, departures-international.com 43
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