'It’s very contemporary': Fashion is in love with jeans that are not jeans


By AGENCY

Each splatter, splice and wear stain on this pair of jeans is printed. The chains and charms are a one-dimensional illusion, as well. Photo: Acne Studios

Acne Studios, the Swedish fashion house, makes US$800 (approximately RM3,482) jeans that look like something a roofer would wear to a rave.

They’re coated in paint flecks, battered as a baseball mitt and burdened with enough metal trinkets that they should weigh 20-odd pounds. Except they don’t. They aren’t covered in paint either. And those wear marks? They’re all a facade.

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