Palace x Evisu Denim Jean Stone Wash

The Palace x Evisu Denim Jean Stone Wash is the centerpiece trouser piece of the SS23 Palace x Evisu third and final collaborative collection, a five-pocket denim jean that brings the full weight of both brands' cultural capital to bear on a garment that sits at the intersection of Japanese premium denim heritage, late-1990s and early-2000s London club culture nostalgia, and the specific irreverence that Palace has built its entire brand identity around. Palace, the London skateboarding label, and Evisu, the Osaka-founded premium denim brand that Hidehiko Yamane established in 1991 after sourcing vintage machinery and old-school tools to replicate the quality and raw denim character he could only find in archive pieces, have collaborated three times across SS19, FW21, and this SS23 final chapter, with each iteration deepening the tribute to the specific role Evisu played in London's late-1990s club scene when the brand's baggy silhouettes and distinctive hand-painted seagull logo on the rear pockets became signifiers of underground cool across the rave and garage music communities that Palace has long held in reverence. The Stone Wash treatment applies the distinctive faded, worked-in patina that gives vintage-reference denim its visual character, the uneven lightening of the indigo that creates depth and dimension across the surface of the jean and positions it within the broader stone wash denim movement that has sustained relevance from the 1980s through every subsequent decade in streetwear. The SS23 collection's denim pieces, including this five-pocket jean, feature the elaborate cherry blossom embroidery at the rear that the brands selected as the SS23 collection's defining design element, the sakura motif serving as both a Japanese cultural reference and as a nod to the seasonal blooming that the collection's spring positioning invoked. The collection was brought to life in a campaign featuring British club culture legends DJ Anz, D Double E, and the Heartless Crew, the personalities who embodied the exact scene that Evisu's London years soundtracked. Retail price $438. The Palace x Evisu Denim Jean Stone Wash is the SS23 collaborative trouser piece for the Palace collector and denim heritage enthusiast who wants the full weight of Japanese premium denim craft, London club culture nostalgia, and cherry blossom embroidery detail in the stone-washed vintage-reference colorway that defined the third and final chapter of Palace and Evisu's collaborative program. The Palace x Evisu Denim Jean Stone Wash was released on April 14, 2023 with a retail price of $438.