Jean queens - Jean STORIES

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Jean
queens
A new website, Jean Stories, captures
the magic of finding the perfect pair.
it’s no secret that jane Herman
What inspired you to create Jean
Stories?
Jane Herman Bishop: It sounds silly,
< “This is
a fancy
version of my
everyday
uniform: blue
jeans and a
button-down.
It never
strays too
far from
that for me!”
ON kane (left): Sweater, $80, jcrew.com. Top, $280, karenwalker.com. Jeans, $195, 3x1.us. Flats, $295, Repetto,
lagarconne.com. On herman bishop (right): Jacket, $550, 10 Crosby Derek Lam. Select Barneys New York,
888-8-BARNEYS. Shirt, $690, Thakoon, shopbop.com. Jeans, $325, 6397, totokaelo.com. Booties, $1,295,
tabithasimmons.com. Her own rings
72 Luckymag.com but jeans are in my genes! My dad is
Ron Herman [founder of the eponymous
boutiques], and I manned the denim bar
at one of his stores in L.A. every summer during high school and college.
That’s where my obsession started.
Florence Kane: Fashion can feel a little
serious, and we wanted whatever we
did to be fun and completely accessible.
Jeans are a total fashion equalizer—
everyone has a pair.
That’s so true! What can you tell us
about the site?
JHB: The overarching idea is that everyone has owned a great pair of jeans, and
there’s always a story behind each one.
So we’re going to feature people whose
style we love and admire—celebrities,
designers, fashion folks—in their most
treasured pairs. Talking to people about
their jeans is a great way to get to know
more about them.
FK: It’s also really important to us that
every story is shoppable. If we show a
photo of an actress or model or editor
wearing a fabulous pair of jeans, we’re
going to tell you not only where you can
buy them but where you can get the rest
of her outfit as well.
JHB: And of course we want to hear
from our readers. People continued …
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Bishop and Florence Kane are in love.
Swooning, head over heels, smitten. The
object of their collective affection?
Denim. The longtime friends (and fashion writers) have taken their adoration
online with the website Jean Stories,
which is a celebration of all things
stonewashed, shredded, skinny and
selvage. We sat down with Herman
Bishop and Kane to talk about their
plans for the site, the pairs they can’t
live without and their all-time favorite
denim moment (surprise: it involves
mom jeans!). —Jayna Maleri
tech SUpport
will be able to submit their own photos
and tell their own jean stories. We always
knew we wanted to include that element
on the site, but it was amazing when we
started meeting with investors and
designers—there came a certain point
in every business conversation when
someone would interrupt us to tell a
story about her favorite pair. We felt like
denim therapists!
The Jean Stories Hall of Fame
Their Top Denim
Moments
< Kate Moss,
1992
JHB: These ads
were absolutely
amazing. We
definitely have
something in
the works for
the site that
involves Calvin
Klein’s iconic ads.
What is it about jeans? Why do we
love them as much as we do?
JHB: I think it’s partly the fact that find-
ing the perfect pair is a challenge, so
when you do, you become even more
attached to them. They also tend to be
what you put on when you want to feel
most like yourself, so I think that ends
up causing an emotional connection. You
wear them during your happiest, most
relaxed moments.
FK: Right. You’re not putting them on to
go to the opera with someone you don’t
like, you know? You’re wearing them to
go to an amazing outdoor concert with
your best friends.
Who are some of your denim icons?
Bruce Springsteen, 1988 >
JHB: No one wears denim better
than Bruce. No one. And I don’t
know how, but he can still get away
with wearing his jeans pretty tight.
JHB: Nineties-era Kate Moss! In those
Okay, last question: Can you share
your jean story with us?
fk: I saved the first pair of designer jeans
that I bought. They’re from Marc Jacobs’
first denim line, and I got them when I
was at New York University. I remember
going into the store on Mercer Street and
being so excited to buy them. They were
a little big, and the saleswoman suggested a smaller size, but I was like, “No, no,
I like them like this.”
JHB: I still wear the jeans I had on when
Bruce Springsteen came into my dad’s
store during my shift when I was a teenager! He’s a legend, so it was a big deal.
They’re men’s Levi’s with a really long
rise and bell-bottoms. They have a huge
hole in the knee and patches in places
where they’ve split, but I’ll never give
them up. And Bruce was wearing amazing jeans, of course. Perfectly worn-in.
Supermodels, 1992
FK: We love ’90s-era
supermodels. They
could wear jeans
that were baggy
in all the wrong
places and
still look so cool.
Debbie Harry, 1978
JHB: We can talk about
Debbie Harry in her
Canadian tuxedo for
hours. We love to
geek out over this stuff.
<
Calvin Klein ads. The jeans she’s wearing
don’t even fit her—they’re total mom
jeans—but she looks perfect.
FK: Yes, Kate for sure. Also Lauren Hutton, in the early ’70s, when she would
just wear a white T-shirt or button-up
with jeans and be stunning.
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