Das Levi-Strauss-Museum zeigt besondere Jeansstücke aus einer privaten Sammlung.
If there's one thing jeans are not, it's a flash in the pan - both in the fashion world and in your own wardrobe. Jeans usually stay with us for many years. Over time, the typical signs of wear and tear, which are now often artificially created during production, develop. As everyone moves differently and uses their clothes to different degrees, individual colour patterns develop. In combination with other signs of wear such as holes, damage or dirt marks as well as artistic design elements, they make every pair of jeans unique. As a result, the blue trousers and jackets become testimonies to the personal history of their wearers.
For Ruedi Karrer from Zurich, they have been real collector's items since his earliest youth. His collection now comprises 14,000 items of clothing from various brands. He pays particular attention to the fadings, the signs of wear and tear, which become more pronounced the more intensively the textiles are worn. Ruedi Karrer presents his exuberant collection in his private ‘Jeans Museum Of Heaviest Fadings’ in Zurich.
Selected pieces and their exciting stories will be on display at the Levi Strauss Museum Buttenheim from 31 July to 16 September 2025.
