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Edwin Softies
Edwin is one of the founders of the Japanese denim school that took the American working cloth and brought it to artisanal perfection.
The brand was born in post-war Tokyo, and its very name is a manifesto: EDWIN is an anagram of DENIM, with the M flipped upside down to become a W.
While America was making denim cheaper, Japan began weaving it the old way, on slow looms, with a dense structure and dyeing that ages into beauty.
Edwin was present at the key innovations of modern denim, including the washing techniques that give jeans a worn character already in the shop.
The essence of the Japanese approach, however, lies in something other than effects: denim here is understood as a living material that writes its own diary through wear.
Rub marks on the thighs, faded knees, the imprint of a wallet — all of it is the record of your year, not a flaw.
Edwin sews trousers that on the day of purchase are the worst they will ever be, and that get better with every day.
The exact opposite of fast fashion, conceived decades before the term existed.
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