A Day with Artisan:
Hiro Yoshikawa
 

A pair of jeans is a staple for every wardrobe. As a fashion of all time, jeans can create more than a thousand ways of stylish outfits. Thinking of breaking out of a style rut? Hiro Yoshikawa, a Japanese fashion artisan has coined a fabric that you would never expect. His unique character of denim is made of washi, the Japanese paper. Every pair of his jeans is handcrafted with utmost attention to details and every detail is painstaking, especially the unrivalled craftsmanship in indigo dye that not only ages the jeans gracefully but the pattern also naturally becomes stronger and looks better overtime.

 

 

Fashion artisan, Hiro Yoshikawa has shed some light on what makes his Japanese jeans so unique











His inspiration of washi jeans comes from ‘shoji’, the sliding door. One day, Hiro was wondering why his traditional Japanese house is so comfy, warm in winter and cool in summer. The key is the washi, the Japanese paper, which is a part of the UNESCO intangible world heritage. Washi is often used in the wooden frames of shoji and its texture diffuses the light to the room with a bright vibe, providing a natural ventilation and refined atmosphere. Hiro desires to celebrate this traditional Japanese art and bring the comfortable texture to his jeans, creating a fashion that fits for four seasons.