Re:Denim

The cut of this denim jacket is something else!

So is the denim brand Kuyichi. On their jeans they print a code you can enter on their website to retrace the journey of your pair of jeans before landing in your shopping basket.

From http://www.kuyichi.com/:

"Many brands are now following our organic revolution.Kuyichi is proud to be the first for organic.
And we keep on pioneering. Besides organic cotton and linen we also work with new, cutting-edge sustainable products like clothing made from recycled PET bottles, spare denim, soya, lenpur and vegetable tanned leather."

Waste Couture

"According to the EPA Office of Solid Waste, Americans throw away more than 68 pounds of clothing and textiles per person per year, and clothing and other textiles represent about 4% of the municipal solid waste. But this figure is rapidly growing. "

"A textile worker takes a break at dawn after sanding jeans all night at a clothing factory in Guangdong Province, China. The blue dust from the jeans is a heavy irritant to the lungs.

http://www.ehponline.org/members/2007/115-9/focus.html