The denim manufacturing industry in Britian is slowly gaining ground with many labels like Le Kilt, the Cooper Collection and King & Tuckfield designing and producing their jeans in London.
Although these jeans are currently made with imported Japanese or Turkish fabrics, the introduction of England’s first selvage fabric mill in Lancashire is likely to soon change that.
Made-in-Britain jeans share a certain directional and utilitarian aesthetic: The jeans are wide legged and sit high on the waist; outerwear is long line and more akin to workers' overalls than to classic denim jackets; and many of the pieces are unisex.
The denim manufacturing industry in London is still tiny. It took Ates three months to build a team of eight while Hewitt Heritage Fabrics, which produces selvage denim in Lancashire, was turned down by multiple mills that thought his project impossible.
