Japan November 2013…...

[Winchy]

I wanted to get familiar with the new camcorder so here's a short trip through Shibuya to the IH design office.

[Snowy]

Top shelf Winchy. Lovely collage of both Shibuya and the office. Sound track lovely, and very sequenced with the moving pictures.

[CLJ]

Oh damn, that black vest with the lace up sides!! Cool video Winchy.

[seanocono]

Everything Snowy said. Great work, Winchy.

[pillowPANTS]

Cool vid dude. Thx for that

[Seul]

Brilliant!.. Ta mate!..

[mclaincausey]

@urbanwoodsman:

@natehate:

I don't know if you can see it but this prison stripe has herringbone in it. Not on the Breton striped pocket. A cool idea.

[rocket]

we getting V-necks, nice….

[tmg]

Great vid, would love to see more, especially the actual process of making the jeans, that would be fascinating (for me at least)

[Giles]

I think there must be an inherent difference in peoples definition of fashion.  I would think that fashion is effectively following a trend.  Just because we are releasing a prison or Breton stripe and coloured selvedge chambray shirts does not mean we are following a trend, or am I missing something?  Haraki makes what he wants to make, with no reference to what may or may not be the trend, the fashion or what may be coming down the pipe from other clothing companies.

We make Type III jackets and always have.  Last season Type III's in UK were super fashionable and super trendy, does that means we are a fashion brand?

When I say we are a not a fashion brand.  I mean that we make no nod to what anyone else is doing and what you walk out of the shop in today you will look just as good in in 15 years.  Our clothing, imo is timeless, that is the antithesis of fashion.

[Giles]

@tmg:

Great vid, would love to see more, especially the actual process of making the jeans, that would be fascinating (for me at least)

We spent the day in Kojima yesterday (and will again today), guess what we were/are doing?

[Winchy]

Thanks all. I've grabbed plenty more footage and will chop it down when I get the time, which will probably be on the flight home.

[Chris]

@Giles:

We spent the day in Kojima yesterday (and will again today), guess what we were/are doing?

Drinking?

[Giles]

Well, we went for a Korean BBQ last night, and some beer was imbibed…..

[Arabit]

Drinks + Karaoke today maybe G?

[Graeme]

I really like these shirts.

And the brown hickory…

This is going to lead to me setting up a monthly Direct Debit with IH UK...

[Giles]

@Arabit:

Drinks + Karaoke today maybe G?

No.  Today we go the Iron Heart Kojima branch and then scope out possible venues for the new Triple Works shop.  After that we are going to Sarina's Dads screen printing factory to document that.  There is even a rumour that Winchy and I will be allowed to do some screen printing…..

I was allowed to sew false plackets at the shirting factory yesterday.

[Giles]

What yesterday made me understand is that what we vaguely think of as weaving and sewing is actually an exercise in engineering.

We went to 2 amazing "house factory" mills.  The first had about 6 looms in it and was run by a husband and wife team, the second had about a dozen shuttle looms and was run by one guy.  In both cases, Haraki uses these people, primarily because of the engineering skills of the people involved.

[Giles]

Statistic of the day.  A Toyoda shuttle loom will produce only enough denim to make about 18 pairs of jeans in an 8 hour shift - and that is if everything goes well…..

[Giles]

Gon signs a pair of Jeans.  It is not my business to say why this is happening, but you will find out soon.  Tom was super excited to see this particular pair as she had personally hand stamped the pocket bag - this was in the days before we screenprinted them…