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SAK plus YAK in a Spontaneous Collaboration

We were very pleasantly surprised when a Japanese shoemaker, currently living in Florence, walked into our store on Wednesday afternoon and even more surprised when he introduced himself as Ryusaka Himura (aka SAK who was the man behind the Converse SAK x JACK PURCELL colab we had in store)

After seeing his shoes on our website, a humble Ryusaka on a break from work came to the store just to 'have a look' and ended up getting the full Denham treatment. Its obvious Ryusaka shares the DENHAM philosophy of Worship Tradition Destroy Convention. He was wearing a vintage jean of his own modified with a leather pocket. An apt move for a cordwainer.  -But that pocket had 5-points and several of ours have 7.

He was 110% the gentleman when we bullied him into a spontaneous collaboration, inspired by his jean but built on one of ours.  We happened to have some yak leather in the back (we're not kidding) courtesy of our pal Panos from Ecco Tanneries.  It turned out to be just the thing to cut a 7-point pocket from.  Besides, "SAK" rhymes with "YAK".

Our CUTTER+ VJS was transformed on the spot into a one-of-a-kind artisan fusion of DENHAM and SAK.  He left in a pair of our Grades and we received a cool new addition to the Denham Garment Library.

sak cut

SEW

sak sew

SIGN

sak sign

sak jeans