Last week we visited Los Angeles to get inspired at Rin Tanaka's Inspiration, the Rose Bowl Flea Market and all the other lovely places of LA. A 'denim haven' as LA is it surely has good roots for vintage boots. The stacks and bales and warehouses full of vintage jeans where all accompanied with beautiful aged Red Wing Shoes. Straight from the mines and factories! Here some images taken at Inspiration, the Rose Bowl, our secret denim dealer and more. Enjoy!
Menno van Meurs, partner in crime behind the Red Wing Shoes store Amsterdam and Tenue de Nîmes, was asked by Hypebeast to share his personal 'Essentials' for their online feature. From Midori's Travelers Notebook, a 1964 Tudor Submariner, Vintage 1960's Levi's 505 Big E, Mont Blanc Meisterstuck "Le Grand" Burgundy till our Red Wing Shoes 2940 Classic Round Oro Russet; All together a very neat and beautiful collection of 'Essentials'. (Photo by Simon van Wijk)
We are very honored to be featured in the new issue of Inventory Magazine. The Red Wing Shoes Amsterdam Store is featured in their ‘Shopped’ section together with Stock Vintage in New York, Tortoise General Store in Los Angeles and Nelson the Seagull in Vancouver.
‘One of the most famous boot companies in the world has done well over the past few years with the resurgence of heritage brands in America and Europe. While they haven’t tried to exploit the undeniable trend, they have reacted in a reserved, calculated and tasteful way. With the opening of a couple of European shops, Red Wing has been able to extend the brand’s reach and offer a full range of product to a new market. The Red Wing Amsterdam location is a prime example of how the brand has taken this path, while also offering a fresh retail experience to the local market. In partnership with the owners of Tenue de Nîmes, the Red Wing shop carries a wide selection of items, merchandised alongside accessories from The Hill-Side, Duluth Pack and a handful of menswear publications. Amongst a collection of vintage tools, beds of coal and industrial furniture, Red Wing is also able to showcase their collection of lifestyle boots, designed in Japan and made in the United States.’
Tenue de Nîmes teamed up with British denim professor William Krol at Tender Co with whom they created 12 hand-numbered jeans. Rather than using a standard yarn-dyed fabric these jeans were cut from piece-dyed cloth. Piece-dyeing heavy canvas like this is usually done over rollers in a large vat, using a carefully controlled automated process, but the canvas for these Tender x Tenue de Nimes jeans has been scrunched into a small vat, causing it to crease up in the dye which leaves marks and streaks on the cloth. It means that each pair of jeans is subtly unique. The final color of these jeans is reminiscent of a standard beige duck fabric, but the shade is warmer and richer- in fact its color is similar to that of a flowerpot. Read more at Tenue de Nîmes > The perfect denim to combine with the Red Wing Shoes 3147 - Work Chukka Black Abilene.
