No Small Price To Pay For Denim Perfection

[runner]

faust、
now, I checked the site and the other links. thank you.
I have not actually seen the line's stuff. as far as I did from the photos, some seem to be interesting.

but the colors on some jeans might be odd ( though I like something odd very much, they are not my kind of thing ). anyway I must see it in actuality.
it is strange that there is no her own store here. maybe she is established outside Japan.


North Tribeca
431 Washington Street
New York, NY 10013
P. 212-431-8699

http://www.numberniners.com/default.asp

we can see its recent collections on this site.
all the denim pieces are instant collector's items.

 

[faust]

Originally posted by runner@May 6th, 2004 - 5:42 am
faust、
now, I checked the site and the other links. thank you.
I have not actually seen the line's stuff. as far as I did from the photos, some seem to be interesting.

but the colors on some jeans might be odd ( though I like something odd very much, they are not my kind of thing ). anyway I must see it in actuality.
it is strange that there is no her own store here. maybe she is established outside Japan.


North Tribeca
431 Washington Street
New York, NY 10013
P. 212-431-8699

http://www.numberniners.com/default.asp

we can see its recent collections on this site.
all the denim pieces are instant collector's items.

I can't access the website for some reason, but I'll check out the store, it's not far from where I work. Michiko is established in the UK, I'm pretty sure, because all the news of her come from there. One store in NYC tried to bring her jeans line here, but they weren't successful. I think they were about 2-3 years ahead of the expensive jeans crave in the US.

 

[faust]

Dammit!!! Went to the Number Niners store only to find out that they are closed on Tuesday's! I like the set up, though. It's in a remote corner in Tribeca, and you'll pass it right by if you don't know what you are looking for. I'll try again later.

I REALLY liked what I saw on their website!

 

[runner]

I should have written that, sorry.
they are open from eleven to seven.

thanks!

 

[faust]

Originally posted by runner@May 19th, 2004 - 1:19 am
I should have written that, sorry.
they are open from eleven to seven.

thanks!

Ok, I finally checked it out. The stuff is cool and funky, reminiscent of Raf Simons. The prices are a bit steeper than I expected (and I expected steep), but I can see where the money goes - the fabrics are high quality. I didn't buy anything, but it's a nice addition to my NYC retail map. Thanks for introducing me to this label. Do they have a strong following in Japan?

 

[runner]

thank you faust!
I saw a few pieces for the first time in a couple of years this season, because no piece had been hanging on the rack, everything had been sold out the moment it arrived at the store.
so, let me take my turn to say you are lucky.

 

[faust]

Originally posted by runner@Jun 3rd, 2004 - 9:33 am
thank you faust!
I saw a few pieces for the first time in a couple of years this season, because no piece had been hanging on the rack, everything had been sold out the moment it arrived at the store.
so, let me take my turn to say you are lucky.

Really? Wow. The Tribeca store is full of stuff....

 

[runner]

faust,
just found this

We have your number: Number (N)ine. Ever since the cultish, street-inspired Japanese men's line opened shop on a quiet back street in Harajuku, a youth-catering district of Tokyo equivalent to the Lower East Side, designer Takahiro Miyashita has set his sights on one thing and one thing only?going west. So much so that only months after its western debut in Paris six months ago, the label has opened up a Tribeca store based on century-old carriage houses, the kind used to house horse-drawn coaches on their way to distant outposts. Complete with a wood interior and conspicuous displays of velvet, all we can say is Miyashita clearly went the whole nine yards. Number (N)ine, 431 Washington Street, 212-431-4397.

from hintmag

 

[orlem]

Originally posted by mikeijames@Apr 28th, 2004 - 10:45 pm
getting the jeans of a moment is an addiction i share with so many...it's glad to know i'm not alone.

me too.

 

[faust]

Originally posted by runner@Jun 22nd, 2004 - 9:47 pm
faust,
just found this

We have your number: Number (N)ine. Ever since the cultish, street-inspired Japanese men's line opened shop on a quiet back street in Harajuku, a youth-catering district of Tokyo equivalent to the Lower East Side, designer Takahiro Miyashita has set his sights on one thing and one thing only?going west. So much so that only months after its western debut in Paris six months ago, the label has opened up a Tribeca store based on century-old carriage houses, the kind used to house horse-drawn coaches on their way to distant outposts. Complete with a wood interior and conspicuous displays of velvet, all we can say is Miyashita clearly went the whole nine yards. Number (N)ine, 431 Washington Street, 212-431-4397.

from hintmag

Yep, the decor is really cool! It's a bold move to open a shop in that corner of Tribeca - but I'm glad it's devoid of hipsters

 

[xcoldricex]

Who, at this point, is not? "The presumption we've all operated under was that if some choice is good, more is better," said Barry Schwartz, a professor of psychology at Swarthmore College and the author of "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less" (Ecco, 2004), a book whose germinus was a trip Mr. Schwartz made to Gap. "I was trying to buy a pair of jeans, and there were 100 different varieties," Mr. Schwartz said. "All of a sudden, I found that I cared, damn it, to get the ones that fit the best, and that my standards were raised despite my former complete indifference to that."

that's where i go to school!

 

[kathween555]

after extensive and obsessive research last week for some guy friends who are looking for new jeans I read that Slab is being sold at Harvey Nichols. (i believe)
The article is a great representation of my life. i live and breathe denim. btw, does anyone here know how Saddlelie's (from the article) fit?? Thanks

 

[xcoldricex]

i got a pair of 45rpms... lovely.

the staff in nyc are really great and friendly.. the guy talked to me for over an hour explaining to me my choices and was convincing me to buy the cheaper pair as opposed to a $750 pair of jeans. its a great space with great people.

 

[droogist]

My husban just bought a pair by a newish label called Absinthium, it's run by two girls from Italy. Anyone heard of it? They seem to have a similar aesthetic to 45rpm - everything's hand-dyed, hand-stitched, hand-blahblah'ed - but to my eye the cuts are cuter and they specialize in a sort of textured all-over distressing. They are without a doubt impressive jeans, but the prices are just astronomical; the cheapest pair sells in shops for like 450 euros, and they go all the way up to 1100+...fortunately my husband didn't pay retail for his, because I'd have bludgeoned him if he'd spent 800 euros on a pair of jeans

 

[Johnny]

i got a pair of 45rpms... lovely.

the staff in nyc are really great and friendly.. the guy talked to me for over an hour explaining to me my choices and was convincing me to buy the cheaper pair as opposed to a $750 pair of jeans. its a great space with great people.

congrats coldrice. I almost bought a pair in Paris a few weeks ago, but here's whay I didn't. (1) they were too slim-cut for me, purely a personal choice (2) they looked very similar to the Y's jeans I have. I found out that this is because bothe 45rpm and YY use the Japanese company Spotted Horsecraft to distress their jeans. It's a really really nice finish they get on the jeans. It was quite funny in the store actually - one assistant was telling me that my jeans (the YY ones) were nice and used the same company as 45rpm, while the other guy was telling me that the 45rpm jeans were much more "artisanal" and that Yohji designs "for zee eye only"! He he. Anyway, they are really nice jeans, and the stitching and thread used did actually look better (thicker) than those on my jeans. I would still like to get a pair, but only if they came in a wider cut - I think they do this, but only sell from Japan.

Did you get the ones with indigo coloured insides? Those were the ones I was going to get.

 

[xcoldricex]

droogist: do you have any other information on this label? can't seem to pull up anything on google....

johnny: thanks, i always had my eye on a pair of y's jeans, just hard to come by. the 45rpm store in ny actually had a run of older jeans that had a wider cut. i might end up buying those in the normal indigo color in a few months. i got the one wash ones so they aren't distressed, i'd rather have the fun myself especially putting this much into a pair of jeans- i think the ones with the indigo insides are the ones using natural indigo.. which run $750 . but yeah... i'm surprised at how honest the people are in the 45rpm store, it was really refreshing to me..

i hear they're cheaper in japan? maybe i'll wait to get a pair there..

 

[droogist]

Yeah, I tried to google it too, coldrice, but it's still incredibly obscure. I think they sell mainly in Japan and Italy, also a boutique in Paris called Shimji carried it.

I took a few pictures of my husband's pair; very nice details throughout. The antique-coin buttons and the blocky rivets are especially cool...actually now that I've pored over every inch of them, I think I want a pair myself

 

[droogist]

A couple more Absinthium pics...these are from their trade show presentation in Paris (I guess they're not particularly informative, sorry about that...)

 

[xcoldricex]

oh those do look very nice. i just hate pocket logo-ing . is it just a single stitch? maybe if i get a pair i'll just take that out... haha.

thanks for the pictures droogist! (i haven't heard that word droog in a long long time. you're a burgess/kubrick fan?)

 

[droogist]

oh those do look very nice. i just hate pocket logo-ing . is it just a single stitch? maybe if i get a pair i'll just take that out... haha.

thanks for the pictures droogist! (i haven't heard that word droog in a long long time. you're a burgess/kubrick fan?)

Yeah, that "logo" is a single thread...but if I stop to think about those girls hand-stitching it onto every pair of jeans, I don't dare contemplate taking it out!

Interesting, you're the first person to make the Burgess connection...that's not actually why I chose the name though. "Droog" is the Dutch word for "dry," translated both literally and figuratively; so if you call someone "droog," it generally means they have a dry sense of humor. Which I've been told that I have.