gourmet jeans

TYPE 1 is one of the three core lines that make up gourmet jeans. It carries the brand’s basic approach of using denim classics created in the 1980s and 1990s as design sources and reworking them to suit Japanese body types. Alongside TYPE 2, it forms the main archive-referencing line; unlike the experimentation represented by TYPE 3, its role is to present classic designs from the past as contemporary products. It is a line that forms the core of the brand, centered on denim pants.

TYPE 2 is one of gourmet jeans’ three main lines, comprising products that reference denim archives from the 1980s and 1990s. Alongside TYPE 1, it forms the brand’s foundational archive-reconstruction lines, distinct in role from TYPE 3, which is identified as the design team’s only experimental line. It is positioned as the mainline that translates the parent brand’s design philosophy of denim for Japanese people into an ongoing product offering.

Among gourmet jeans’ three lines, TYPE 3 is positioned as an independent line and the design team’s only experimental line. While TYPE 1 and TYPE 2 form the archive-based core, referencing iconic pieces from the 1980s and 1990s, TYPE 3 is responsible for design explorations by the brand and proposals for new silhouettes. It shares gourmet jeans’ fundamental denim design while clearly emphasizing an experimental approach distinct from the other two lines.