The year sure started with a bang. New monster buildings in Dubai, snowstorms in Asia and the usual stuff. But we’re keeping our cool in heat or cold. In celebration of new year we’re bringing you fresh new gear from The Year Of… and Momotaro Jeans. First of The Year Of Dog – Lil’ Brooklyn design that was introduced some time back and also featured in the poll for my next denim project (which will be properly introduced this week).

The jeans are the premium Japanese denim the brand is known for but features rainbow selvedge instead of the typical gold and silver selvedge.

Just a little background (no pun intended) on the Little Brooklyn. The “design” as you might call it was inspired by a trip to Japan where designer Brad Digital came across a bronze statue of a dog. He was told by the locals that this dog is a memorial to a a specific dog named Hachiko. Hachiko belonged to a professor in a local university. The dog had followed the professor to the train station on his trips between home and university. One day the professor died but the dog still kept up the daily routine and patiently waited for his master’s return. Hachiko continued this routine for several years and during this time people who observed his routines took the dog home and provided him food and cover. (For the whole story, click the picture below)

That was the initial inspiration for the design, though Brad’s own dogs served as additional inspiration for the character. A large toy version of the Lil’ Brooklyn or the male version of Hello Kitty as he is also titled, was the centerpiece during Fashion Week where different artists designed their custom versions of the Lil’ Brooklyn some selling for up to $3000. Of course our attention is on the denim version of the design dating back to the dog year of 2006. I would call this timeless style as the details and the design itself still shine as if the design was just released yesterday.

Our other release is the Momotaro Jeans green selvedge chambray work shirt (MVS H042).

This work shirt is a rather unique example of great vintage work wear redesigned to meet the expectations of today’s public. A great follow up to my recent work wear edition if I might say so myself.

The shirt is similar high quality 5 oz selvedge chambray as the other Momotaro work wear shirts in our catalogue. This Monster Hunter -shirt comes in green color and works great no matter if you’re sitting in the office or working outside.

This ends this year’s first new product round up. We have something new coming up from Remy tomorrow and until then. Stay fresh, appreciate those around you stay true to what you believe in. I’m out, peace.

Hope you have had a chance to give your vote on my next big denim project (see the poll on the right).

Four more nights till Christmas Eve. Splendid! Few more days of work followed by a long weekend full of seasonal celebrations. Christmas is a season of sharing and giving, but also like someone from my family mentioned about receiving. It’s true, as nice as it is to give presents it’s also nice to get a few surprise gifts.

Well if you are still in search of that perfect gift, we can truly help you out. You can give a person a gift that makes them go little something like this:

We are throwing a little Xmas promotion for all y’all, lasting from today until the 27th of December. Just use coupon code
NDH-XMS09 at the check out to get 15% off all your purchases.

On that note, I am pleased to let you know we just received a batch of very, very special jeans. Of which I will share a few lines as well as photos. But let me tell you, photos do not do these jeans justice. I have seen a number of very nice jeans in my life, but these are something else.

These jeans from The Year Of… Dog -line of jeans feature a deep indigo dye making them look almost black. The denim is that rigid heavy oz denim the brand is known for but instead of the traditional gold and silver selvedge associated with the brand, these jeans feature a “rainbow selevdge”. That is the line in the selvedge has number of colors giving it a pretty nice look. The brand started off with this particular type of selvedge and only the later designs from 2006 have that gold/ silver selvedge.

The embroidery is very detailed and simply amazing. I took a good while to check the jeans in detail and although every pair from the brand is special these are probably my personal favorites.

The self proclaimed New York answer to Hello Kitty from 2006 is also featured in the leather patch. Below are few different alternatives of the patches from the Dog Years.

The jeans will retail for 269 euros and will become available through our online store after Christmas but the pre-orders are being processed and if you want a pair just contact us for details.

That’s all I have for this sneak peek-update-promotion-holiday-edition. I will share a few more lines on Little Brooklyn upon the launch of the design on our site. But indeed that’s all for now. Remember to vote for my next project. Next year means a lot of things, including my new denim project so vote vote vote and make sure the design of your choice wins the honor of being the most worn pair of jeans in 2010 (at least for me myself and I).

Be easy and how did Frank Sinara put it, The weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful since we have no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…