Rag & Bone Blue Jeans
January 1st, 2007Unhappy with the state of blue jeans in the world, London prep school chums Marcus Wainwright and Nathan Bogle launched Rag & Bone in 2001. Turning their backs on scuba-diving and modeling, respectively, Wainwright and Bogle were motivated to make “well-tailored, dark-washed denims”. Their quest brought them to Tompkinsville, Kentucky, where they found a small army of unemployed Levi’s factory workers. And the rest, as they say, was history. Their unusual name, Wainwright explained, comes from “the rag and bone man, and old English guy who came ’round the neighborhood when we were kids to collect all the junky iron and rags in exchange for candy…” Mmmmkay.