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Byline: Jane Herman
Why would two prep school friends from London with minimal fashion experience choose to take on the very American business of blue jeans? It was a sudden itch, an inspired impulse. In 2001, the originators of Rag & Bone met up in New York after having dabbled for a few years in other pursuits: Marcus Wainwright had been scuba-diving in Mexico, and Nathan Bogle had been working as a model when they were motivated to make well-tailored dark-washed denims. "Having come from England, we had an appreciation for craftsmanship and things' being made by hand," says Wainwright. So, with quality in mind, the novice designers set out to find the most authentic jeans resource around, which they discovered was not overseas, or even out West, but in the very heart of Levi's country: Tompkinsville, Kentucky.
Vowing to make everything "in America by people who have always been making what they make," says Wainwright, they began to learn their trade from the 60 or so ...