DIOR HOMME - Denim: Distressing

These days luxury denim is all about the cool, innovative techniques designers come up with to distress and treat their denim. Hedi Slimane has definitely given his contribution, from the famous waxed and ripped jeans, to his subtle, and not so subtle distressing effects. This is most always done by hand by skilled denim craftsmen. So, as you can imagine, when the counterfeiters start messing with distressing, it can get ugly.

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The fake distressing is often done very cheaply in straight lines with no character. The authentic pair has a rather amazing effect that took more than a piece of sand paper and a plank of wood to create.

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More of the same here in the example above. The distressing should be less like straight chalk lines and more like the natural creasing that occurs over time.

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I think that the fake pair above is almost laughable. They look horrible. Very poorly done. The authentic jeans are actually pressed into wrinkles and distressed, so it is a textured almost folded effect.

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The same with the back of the knees. The wrinkles in the authentic jeans are real, where as the knock-off's are poorly trying to recreate it in 2-D. Also as a side note, no authentic pair of Dior Homme jeans has ever had a bee embroidered on the back pocket (like the example of the fake above). Some slacks/ pants did (and of course several shirts and sweaters) but never the denim.