What’s 2006 got in store for jeans?
Rajiv Badlani
December 30, 2005
Indystar out of Indiana offers this advise: Trash the low-rise jeans, but don't buy too high a waistband either. They instantly add years onto your frame. And while you're at it, toss any tapered-leg jeans with an elastic waist; they make your bottom look wider and your stomach rounder. Opt for a boot cut or slightly flared ankle, and be sure they comfortably fasten just beneath your belly button.
Kenth Anderson offers ruffled jeans. Interesting innovation, but really just a gimmick. Not going to go mainstream nor will it change what’s happening on the street.
But here’s a controversial concept that may find some following in 2006.
Designer Bjorn Atldax in Sweden, who claims to be a devout anti-Christian, has put a Satanic logo on his Cheap Monday jeans and says it is intended to make Christians angry.
His disdain for religion influenced the creation of the emblem. "I think organized religion is not good for society. I don't oppose people believing in God privately but I hate congregations," Atldax said. Atldax terms the Bible as "probably the most dangerous book ever written."
The designer plans to create logos mocking, and critical of, other religions. "I plan to make something anti-Hindu because I think its caste system is awful. I am not considering any anti-Islamic work now because there are already a lot of anti-Islamic sentiments," he said.
A sure way to get publicity considering the amount of noise we’ve made in the past about the shlokas in Eyes Wide Shut (I wouldn’t even have noticed if Indians hadn’t made so much noise about it. What a boring movie! Nicole Kidman and a lot of other beautiful unclad bods but a childish and silly plot) and when folks printed Indian gods’ images on underwear and slippers.
Chances are no one would ever have wanted to see this inane movie, but create a little controversy and business booms.
I don’t know what this guy’s jeans are like but if us Indians live up to our past, we’ll make him a worldwide brand before long. Smart guy!
Jeans have always been used to make a personal statement and I’m glad jeans can be a medium for political controversy.
That may be the big thing for 2006.
Kenth Anderson offers ruffled jeans. Interesting innovation, but really just a gimmick. Not going to go mainstream nor will it change what’s happening on the street.
But here’s a controversial concept that may find some following in 2006.
Designer Bjorn Atldax in Sweden, who claims to be a devout anti-Christian, has put a Satanic logo on his Cheap Monday jeans and says it is intended to make Christians angry.
His disdain for religion influenced the creation of the emblem. "I think organized religion is not good for society. I don't oppose people believing in God privately but I hate congregations," Atldax said. Atldax terms the Bible as "probably the most dangerous book ever written."
The designer plans to create logos mocking, and critical of, other religions. "I plan to make something anti-Hindu because I think its caste system is awful. I am not considering any anti-Islamic work now because there are already a lot of anti-Islamic sentiments," he said.
A sure way to get publicity considering the amount of noise we’ve made in the past about the shlokas in Eyes Wide Shut (I wouldn’t even have noticed if Indians hadn’t made so much noise about it. What a boring movie! Nicole Kidman and a lot of other beautiful unclad bods but a childish and silly plot) and when folks printed Indian gods’ images on underwear and slippers.
Chances are no one would ever have wanted to see this inane movie, but create a little controversy and business booms.
I don’t know what this guy’s jeans are like but if us Indians live up to our past, we’ll make him a worldwide brand before long. Smart guy!
Jeans have always been used to make a personal statement and I’m glad jeans can be a medium for political controversy.
That may be the big thing for 2006.
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