Designer jeans are high-fashion jeans that are marketed as status symbols. The Nakash brothers (Joe, Ralph, and Avi) are generally credited with starting the trend when they launched their Jordache line of jeans in 1978. Designer jeans are cut for women and men and are often worn more fitted than low quality jeans, though relaxed cuts are available. They typically feature prominently visible designer names or logos on the back pockets and on the right front coin-pocket. This article is about the type of clothing. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Jordache is a brand of designer jeans that started in 1978 by the Nakash brothers in New York. ...

Late '70s to early '80s

During the early rise to prominence of designer jeans, in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, it was fairly typical to see fashions for men follow those for women, just as previously women had been the first to wear flared and bell-bottomed trousers. For example, Jordache initially marketed their products to women only, but soon followed with a line for men that was very similar in overall appearance to the women's. Given the general tendency toward bagginess in men's pants today, this male-after-female trend is less noticeable; nevertheless, most jeans companies have offered low-rise cuts for men in recent years.

Within a few years of the Jordache launch, dozens of other brands were on the market; among them were:

• Sergio Valente
• Sassoon
• Gloria Vanderbilt
• Chic
• Calvin Klein
• Bonjour
• Guess?
• Dittos
• Joujou

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Today

In the late 1980s, designer jeans lost popularity. Beginning in the 1990s with Helmut Lang and into the early 2000s, they started coming back into fashion, with specialty brands such as 1921 Jeans, AG Jeans, Antik Denim, Blue Way, Citizens of Humanity, Chip and Pepper, Diesel, Dorinha Jeans Wear, Earnest Sewn, Energie, Evisu, Fortune Denim, Goldsign, Guess?, Hudson, Habitual, i-Jeans (Evolution of Freedom), J Brand, J & Company, JamesJeans, Joe's Jeans, Ksubi, Mavi Jeans, Miss Sixty, Nudie Jeans, Paige Premium Denim, Paper Denim & Cloth, People For Peace, Ranahan Jeans, Replay, Rock and Republic, Seven for All Mankind, Silver Jeans, TAG, Taverniti So Jeans, True Religion, Miss Me, William Rast, Yanuk,Levi, and Lucky Brand Jeans Helmut Lang (born on March 10, 1956 in Vienna), is an Austrian fashion designer, known for his minimalist, deconstructivist, and often severe designs. ... Citizens of Humanity is a designer denim manufacturer based in Huntington Park, California, that was founded by the makers of 7 For All Mankind. ... Chip and Peppers Original Logo Chip and Pepper is a designer jeans company based in Los Angeles, CA. They originally launched in the fall of 2003 in Los Angeles, and were founded by the identical twins that are namesakes of the brand. ... Diesel SpA simply known as Diesel is an Italian based designer clothing company which produces apparel for men and women between 18 and 35 years old. ... The Dorinha Jeans Wear logo Dorinha Jeans Wear [1] is a clothing company and label based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... Evisu or Evisu Genes is a Japanese clothing company that specializes in producing premium denim wear through traditional, labor-intensive methods. ... This article is about the clothing line. ... Hudson refers to: Persons named Hudson Brett Hudson (1953–), American musician, singer, and songwriter, one of the Hudson Brothers Ernie Hudson, (1945–), American actor and playwright Garth Hudson (1937–), Canadian musician George Hudson (1800–1871), English railway financier George Hudson (1867–1946), English entomologist Karl Hudson-Phillips (1933–), Trinidadian lawyer... Ksubi (formerly Tsubi) is a youth-oriented Australian clothing label. ... Cnwb 04:17, 23 August 2005 (UTC) . Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Nudie Jeans is a Swedish clothing brand and a subsidiary of Svenska Jeans AB, founded in 1999 by Maria Erixsson, a former employee and AD of Lee Europe and Swedish designer JC. As of 2003, the company had 12 employees, revenue of 93 million Swedish kronor and a net income... Rock and Republic is an American high-end fashion and jeans brand founded by fashion mogul Michael Ball in 2002. ... 7 For All Mankinds Original pocket stitching 7 For All Mankind (often referred to simply as Seven or Seven Jeans) is brand of a designer jeans owned since 2007 by the VF Corporation. ... This article is considered orphaned, since there are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... True Religion Brand Jeans is an American clothing line, established in December of 2002 by husband and wife team Jeffrey and Kym Lubell [1]. // In the summer of 2000, the concept of luxury denim was introduced to a scrutinizing, though genuinely enthusiastic industry and public. ... This article discusses the Biblical patriarch. ... Lucky Brand Jeans is a denim company from Vernon, California, United States, founded in 1990 by Gene Montesano and Barry Perlman. ...

Designer jeans can be purchased at high-end department stores such as Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, Barneys New York, Lord & Taylor and Neiman Marcus, along with retailers like The Buckle, Urban Outfitters, and Kitson Boutique. Select Macy's stores carry designer jeans. They typically cost from around USD 200, mid-range, to more than USD 500 for higher-end denim. This article is about the Nordstrom department store chain. ... Bloomingdales is a chain of upscale American department stores owned by Macys, Inc. ... Bergdorf Goodman is a major luxury goods department store based in Midtown, Manhattan in New York City. ... Saks Fifth Avenue is a chain of upscale American department stores that is owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises (SFAE), a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated. ... Barneys New York is a chain of upscale department stores. ... Lord & Taylor, based in New York, New York, is the oldest department store chain in the United States. ... Categories: Stub | Retail companies of the United States ... The Buckle, Inc. ... Urban Outfitters, Inc. ... Kitson is a boutique located in Los Angeles, California on the famous Robertson Boulevard. ... This article is about the R. H. Macy & Co. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...

A few of the original designer brands, namely Jordache, Calvin Klein, and Dittos, are also coming back with the designs that made them popular.

• Calvin Klein reproduced/reissued their old design of the loop stitched pocket as a throwback to the 1980s style and named them Omega jeans. The differences are that the copper rivets at the back pocket were taken out, no double stitches appear at the both side of the jeans, and the back pockets were redesigned with a bit of slanting to the edge.
• In August 2007, Jordache completed a prominent advertising campaign featuring supermodel Heidi Klum, photographed in the Chateau Marmont.
• Dittos jeans, in their trademark assortment of bright colors, are now available at Saks Fifth Avenue.

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References

• Stern, Jane and Michael (1990). The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-016470-0.