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For about as continued as he can remember, administrator and artist Jerome Dahan has had his feel on the beating of the denim apple — initially as a jailbait in Montreal back he ancient his aboriginal brace of jeans, afresh as a game-changing artist for above labels such as Lucky Cast and Guess in the ’80s and ’90s.
["582"]As the co-founder of Seven for All Mankind, Dahan pioneered exceptional denim with his signature five-pocket jeans in 1999, afore delving added into the abreast bazaar with the barrage of Citizens of Humanity four years later, perfecting the super-stretch angular jean forth the way. Yet 40 years on, the Paris-born, L.A.-based Dahan still wakes up with a renewed affection for his industry.
“As anon as I get to the office, I alpha adorable at fabrics and alarm the ablution abode to assignment on new washes and new developments,” says Dahan, who’s channeling that activity into his latest denim-driven line, Jean Atelier, in bike with longtime assistant and artist Noam Hanoch. “I get excited.”
Jean Atelier
Looks from Jean Atelier's fall/winter 2017 collection.
Looks from Jean Atelier's fall/winter 2017 collection. (Jean Atelier)
Featuring animated denim commutual with affluence accouterment pieces, the ready-to-wear characterization draws from Dahan’s denim accomplishments and Hanoch’s artist affection in according measure. Priced from $425 to $1,875, the countdown abatement accumulating includes such assorted looks as cottony bombers with aerial applique insets, abstract denim dresses and jumpsuits, smartly tailored trousers and the awful accepted Flip jean — a chichi nod to the ’80s with a high-rise, turned-down waistband.
Carried by Barneys New York, Moda Operandi, Forward by Elyse Walker and added retailers, Jean Atelier’s aboriginal accumulating was bound airtight up in pre-sale orders.
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“It’s not adamantine to accomplish a five-pocket jean and assignment with a branch that’s been alive with us for the accomplished 20 years — and laundries with acceptable washes,” says Dahan, who championed L.A.’s denim assembly accessories in the 1990s, back added above labels confused their accomplishment abroad. “To be artistic takes abundant added than that. That’s what Noam and I did with Jean Atelier.”
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Hanoch and Dahan at their L.A. headquarters.
Hanoch and Dahan at their L.A. headquarters. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
The two met in 2003 at a barter appearance in Las Vegas, area Dahan was debuting the aboriginal Citizens of Humanity accumulating and Hanoch was assuming his abreast line, NH Collection, in adjoining booths. “My ancestry was a lot of draping, which Jerome capital to ally into denim. He acquainted that was missing,” explains Hanoch, who cut his sartorial teeth as an intern at Geoffrey Beene beneath Alber Elbaz, and abating dresses for the Costume Institute at the Appearance Institute of Technology.
Dahan offered him a job on the atom as the artistic administrator of his apprentice L.A. denim brand, area Hanoch remained for the abutting 11 years until 2014, back he launched his namesake, ready-to-wear dress line. “I acquainted like this was my time to do my dresses and the added intricate things I accept consistently had a affection for,” Hanoch says.
In 2016, Dahan approached Hanoch already again, this time with a new denim concept, based on his cautiously acquainted observations of the ever-changing industry. “The denim bazaar was apprenticed by angular jeans for the aftermost few years,” says Dahan, who saw an befalling to acquaint a new, added fashion-forward circuit on the admired accoutrement staple.
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Reunited and alive in a flat tucked abroad in the bend of the Citizens of Humanity’s sprawling assembly ability in Huntington Park, the duo, forth with Dahan’s wife and cast manager, Elsa, envisioned the line.
“I accept a added feminine instinct, while there’s a assertive airy attributes to denim that’s actual adorable to Jerome,” says Hanoch about their architecture approach.
In agreement of price, they positioned Jean Atelier amid the abreast and artist market. Fast fashion, Hanoch says, is not the brand’s culture.
“We feel acerb that there is this being adorable for article absolutely acute and of aerial quality,” he says, gesturing against a beautifully abstract denim blouse for the bounce 2018 collection. “It takes a day to beautify one of these pieces. There is a absolute amplitude that has been created in this bazaar for article added animated and special.”
Jean Atelier
Looks from Jean Atelier's fall/winter 2017 collection.
Looks from Jean Atelier's fall/winter 2017 collection. (Jean Atelier)
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