July 2019

Samurai Boss

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Chilling out with Toru Nogami, creator and CEO of Samurai Jeans. I recently took a drive down to Samurai Jeans headquarters in the Umeda area of Osaka to chat with Samurai Jeans founder, Toru Nogami. Nogami-san created Samurai Jeans in 1997 from very humble beginnings, and his jeans have become well-known around the world for …

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Q&A with Iron Heart’s Shinichi Haraki

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I recently had a chance to question away to my heart’s content with one of the absolute legends of the Japanese denim world: Iron Heart’s Shinichi Haraki. Haraki-san created Iron Heart in 2003 and has been blowing us away with his heavy and hard-wearing clothing ever since. Between coming up with new ideas for the …

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