2015 Dubious Honors: Coolest Brand (Streetwear and Denim). Nominate your candidates!

[Synthese]

COOLEST BRAND: STREETWEAR AND DENIM

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THIS THREAD IS FOR NOMINATIONS TOWARDS THE AWARD FOR "COOLEST BRAND: STREETWEAR AND DENIM." Please post your nominations below. You have until January 20th to make your nominations! After that, a poll will be created in this thread and there will be a 3-day voting period, ending at 12AM of January 24th. The winners will be revealed in the January 27th newsletter (not signed up for the newsletter? Sign up here).

 

[LA Guy]

My nomination is for:

Blue Blue Japan. It hits that dulcet note between "tries too hard" and "don't even care anymore." Great regard for materials. Does their own thing, both in the fact hat it is a true "small maker", as in, a lot of the rarer pieces are done in house, not farmed out, and in that they do their own thing, "All things indigo", with only a passing nod to trends in the bodies that they use. And the people in charge, according to @Synthese , at least, who is not allowed to lie on the internet, under contract with Styleforum, and simultaneously chill and obsessive.

That's cool.

 

[ghdvfddzgzdzg]

I'm nomming Kapitol

 

[g transistor]

Agree with Blue Blue Japan. Lots of awesome stuff with an excellent mixture of traditional and modern. And yeah, they just do what they want and happily I agree with pretty much everything they do.

Kapital was a close second for me, but there's just so much stuff that I think is a bit wonky and off. Like Visvim, some great concepts and good things pulled off well, but tons of horrendously ugly ****.

 

[ChetB]

Lemaire

 

[notwithit]

I'm gonna somewhat arbitrarily say Hender Scheme. Because pig hats.

 

[Steel28]

Sage De Cret

 

[gsgleason]

Truman Boot Company.

Vince has been very responsive with the community and has creates some very fine quality footwear for a great price using unique materials. It looks like he's getting more business than he can handle right now, so I hope it all works out.

 

[coolron]

Taichi Murakami

 

[Streettrash]

Freenote Cloth.

 

[ManofKent]

Kapital - great pieces and a sense of fun that some brands lack. The coolest catalogues too.

 

[sepp]

Yohji Yamamoto

 

[Find Finn]

Norwegian Rain.

 

[gaseousclay]

a few of my picks:

- 3sixteen
- Taylor Stitch
- Shuttle Notes
- Truman Boot Co.
- Pure Blue Japan
- Studio D'Artisan
- Anonymous Ism
- The Strike Gold

 

[SixOhNine]

Well, I'd say the brand that inspired the most, um, passionate reaction had to be Lawless Denim.