ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 1月24日 08時04分

Normally it takes Takayuki Echigoya 8 hours to make a single pair of his handmade, vintage-style jeans in his home-factory-showroom in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. To mimic antique jeans, he has collected 11 black @singersewingcompany sewing machines manufactured in New York between 1905 and 1945, each featuring a steel needle needed for his signature stitches. Another machine once used by Levi Strauss & Co. now makes hems; another is used to make buttonholes, Takayuki said. Takayuki grew up on the northern tip of Japan and moved to the Bowery area in New York to start a fashion line in 1996. He later took that line to Japan where, he learned how to sew denim. He returned to New York in 2014 and, 2 years later, he started @boweryblue. Usually, Takayuki produces about 25 pairs of jeans month. They sell for $480 and $580 each from his website and for as much as $650 at shops in Brooklyn, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok. He aims to duplicate classic American jeans by using only American cotton, along with his own “unique cotton thread.” “Jeans are like humans,” he said. “They need their own character.” @dedecim took this photo of Takayuki working on a pair of #?. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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