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Summer Projects: New Clients, New Ideas.

By David Himel on September 11, 2012

This summer was very busy for HBL. I participated in my first serious collaboration with Imogene and Willie. Matt and Carrie were awesome and we created a gorgeous buffalo hide womans d-pocket jacket using rare and limited 1960s brass Lightning Zippers. The jackets turned out beautifully! I worked with Kiya and The Self Edge and [...]

Posted in Design, Materials, prototype designs, Retail | Tagged 14 oz, berlin, blanket liner, buffalo, himel bros, Horsehide, Imogene, Messenger Bag, The Self Edge, Willie | 3 Comments

Working Out New Designs: Sweat and Oilskin

By David Himel on September 6, 2012

Part of the fun of working out my leather jacket brand is designing new things. Picking from the pantheon of historic jackets and altering, tailoring and updating the design, patterns and materials is a costly and time consuming process. Frankly, it is one of the few things that I enjoy. This summer I have worked [...]

Posted in Design, Materials, prototype designs | Tagged 1910, 1920, ball and chain, Horsehide, millerain, oilskin, railroad jacket, work jacket | Leave a comment

The Black Keys: Customer Profiles

By David Himel on April 3, 2012

COPYRIGHT Brian Patterson One of the bonus of what I do is that the people really really into good jackets, vintage jackets seek me out through the web. Until the availability of free blogging I was basically hidden away here in Toronto. With the advent of the blogger platform I have been able to reach [...]

Posted in Customer Profiles | Tagged Avro D pocket, himel brothers, Horsehide, Score Sportswear, The Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys | 4 Comments