CHUP is a Japanese sock brand launched in 2009 by GLEN CLYDE, a sock manufacturer founded in Tokyo in 1992. Created by GLEN CLYDE founder Mitsuru Hashimoto, the brand offers colorful socks inspired by traditional ethnic patterns and Indigenous cultures from around the world. The brand name derives from an Ainu word referring to the sun, the moon, and the stars in the sky, and each design is given a name and a story. The brand is characterized by Japanese manufacturing using vintage knitting machines, and its products are sold in Japan and abroad, including at select shops in Europe and the United States.
Concept
Creating socks with the world's Indigenous peoples as a source of inspiration