As a fan of skate/contemporary baggy jeans, I decided at the beginning of October to take the brand to its next level by designing my own jeans. With this design I wanted to try and match some of the top brands that have sewn in graphic design alongside logo and leather belt patch. These Evisu jeans from the 1990s were a big influence- After playing around with different designs I settled on a bull type character that looks like the Greek Minotaur representing the blend of human and beast, but overall strength which reflects the quality of the jeans against wear and tear. I emphasised the brand logo further by dressing the bull in a 1999 logo polo shirt. Here's the final stitched graphic on the jeans of rear pocket- To bring further quality I created detailed sizing tags as buyers often check authenticity via the inner tag. My size-tags are quick to suggest you are buying something of quality- Again like the classic designer brand jeans I went for a high quality leather badge to ...
Moving on from Joggers1999, I posted polls via my Insta and TikTok accounts to see if there was any interest in people buying a full sweat-suit with 1999 logos on pants and sweater. A design feaure would be concealed pockets as often pockets on suits like this are baggy and open. I offered a few colour-ways as choices. Red and Black was the most popular in the poles. This time I used a sample company from China to to make the sample suit. Here's the sample that arrived 10 days later. The response to the sweat suit sample was excellent. I dropped the suit at the beginning of September and received fiften orders at £75 a set. Here is a video the manafacture sent to me of the sweat suit in production- What I was most proud about this design was the concealed pockets on the rear and the overlap on the sidepockets, this brings a higher design status to the the common lounge pants. Here's the video of the final design from te manafacturer who was pleased with the outcome of the po...