Alex in Japan - November 2022

[weftyarn]

Safe travels! Much appreciated that whilst you must have a long list of things to do you still take the time to take pictures and let us „be part of it“.

[louisbosco]

@Alex:

@louisbosco:

@Alex Holy shit that's insane. where did you fly into?

Haneda at 0745 - big planes from Thailand, India and two from London all arrived at about the same time

damn. never would've expected such a big crowd at that timing. enjoy yourself mate!

[Alex]

Yesterday was lightweight denim agent / mill meetings and tours…

7am Shinkansen from Tokyo to Fukuyama

Always sit on the right hand side of the train for the views…

No images of the meeting - lots of discussion about denim availability for the next two years and production capacity in the factories that make the clothes with it. You need to be a much better photographer than me to make those spreadsheets look interesting

Lunch pitstop for some ひつまぶし (hitsumabushi) - eel and rice, and in this case a bunch of sides too

[Alex]

Next up, touring two mills

[Alex]

[Aetas]

Would love to see them weaving!
Have you made some videos in the mills @Alex ?

[Alex]

[Alex]

@Aetas:

Would love to see them weaving!
Have you made some videos in the mills @Alex ?

Look on my Instagram stories, they are too short to upload to Vimeo

[Alex]

[Alex]

Forgot how annoying these masks are with glasses

[Aetas]

Short videos, but worth seeing! Thanks Alex.

[Alex]

Jet lag is kicking my arse - I was up at 0315 yesterday and 0500 today. Went for a nice walk before we kicked things off today

[Alex]

[Alex]

At the Kohima store briefly this morning. You can see the scale of our (IHUK) growth and how much these guys are having to adapt to hold our product before it ships out.

[Alex]

Anyone want some archived products?

Sarina showing off the new shipping scales

[goosehd]

@Alex Fantastic pictures of the trip to date!!  Thank you so much for sharing

[ROman]

Great pictures, @Alex . Thanks.

[Sage954]

Fun to see these pics. Are the mills weaving exclusively for IH?

[mclaincausey]

Hm that pinstripe selvedge affair one of yourn, @Alex ? Color me intrigued…

[Nik]

Cool. Looks like the Sakamoto machine was making slub denim?