Here’s a quick roundup of the latest news, drops and collaborations from leading denim brands.
House of Sunny
House of Sunny released its first vegan denim collection. The London-based brand has replaced traditional leather patches with laser.
The women’s collection includes crystal-embellished wide-leg jeans, a workwear-inspired jacket and a racer jacket. For men, the brand offers wide-leg jeans and a workwear jacket with a corduroy collar. House of Sunny is subtly lasered onto the waistband of some styles. Others feature the brand’s name lasered across the back yoke.
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The vegan denim line aligns with the brand’s efforts to concerning animal welfare and animal agriculture’s impacts on greenhouse gas emissions. The brand also omits down, feathers, exotic skins, mohair, mulesing, wool and angora from its supply chain.
EB Denim
EB Denim is stepping further outside the denim category with a second lace capsule collection.
Designed to evoke “empowerment and sexuality,” the new collection features new silhouettes such as a low-rise lace capri, long lace baby tee dress, and a new beige shade of lace.
The Los Angeles-based brand shot the collection underwater to reflect the “tranquility and femininity” that EB Denim founder and designer Elena Bonvicini wants people to feel when wearing it. “Growing up in Southern California, I lived in the water. I love the feeling of being underwater, when just for a moment, the world drowns out, until you breach the surface,” she said.
“You know the scene in the modern Romeo and Juliet film when they fall in love at first sight through the aquarium, that’s how I wanted this collection and lookbook to feel,” she added.
The collection is available now on EB Denim’s website, Revolve and select retailers.
EB Denim launched its first stretch lace line in February. It included long-sleeve tops with fingerless gloves and split leg leggings in black and off-white colorways.
Denham
Amsterdam-based Denham teamed with Karabo Poppy Molestane, a South African illustrator, street artist and graphic designer based in Johannesburg, for a new House Guest Artist collection.
Inspired by African aesthetics, Molestane’s illustrations play with pattern, expressive lines and irregular type rendered in unconventional color combinations, Denham said. She applied this bold aesthetic to the brand’s signature scissors logo to metaphorically “cut up” cultures, with designs inspired by her own heritage and “mother tongue” Sesotho.
“I always see African art presented in a very traditional sense, so I aimed to create something contemporary, and accurate, presented in a way people haven’t seen before,” Molestane said.
The collection spans bowling shirts, chinos, tees, Tencel shorts and denim with illustrated patterns and appliqués. A stonewashed denim jacket features an “Aim High” patch and a couple of novelty pins. A denim cap has a patch that reads “The Truth Is in the Details.”
The collection is available now on Denham’s website and stores.
