Last season's XL buckle big jeans in heavyweight ~18oz super slub selvedge denim are refinished with a bleached, stained, and destroyed look. They are completely unnaturally faded with legs that have been shredded off asymmetrically, replicating coveted antique jeans from the pre 1900s that are found and auctioned in a similar state. Looking at these you can feel Ryohei Kawanishi's incisive interrogation of fashion, luxury, and their hypocrisies--proposing a salable/wearable luxury recreation of a destroyed historical workwear artifact forces the audience to take pause. How much of it is in earnest and how much of it is a joke? Where does value come from? What about fashion is real? There's real physical weight here..they're heavy jeans...and a real price tag in the four figures. Haha, for how long?
The questions don't have an answer..or actually it feels like there are infinite right ways to answer--corresponding to the infinite possible ways to reconfigure symbols, signs, and reality. Where does the meaning go? Errr, well, I don't know but everybody's doing it, faster...and faster.
Made in China 10/10 Condition, new with tags.
Fit Notes: Fitted at the waist with roomy seat and legs.
