Daniel Patrick X T Raww 2016: Making Jeans With Hip-Hop Star Tyga

Daniel Patrick

As of Thursday, October 20, 2016

When designer Daniel Patrick expanded his eponymous streetwear label to include jeans, he wanted to steer clear of the traditional five-pocket style.

“Jeans are jeans … but every jean has its own shape, and it’s always a work in progress,” he said.

Instead, he made jeans the Daniel Patrick way. The pants have drop crotches. Despite current trends calling for loose jeans, Daniel Patrick jeans carry a slim fit.

The jeans work with the Daniel Patrick style, which the designer calls high-end, minimal streetwear. Fans included Tyga, the hip-hop star and paramour of reality TV star Kylie Jenner.

Daniel Patrick and Tyga worked on capsule collection Daniel Patrick X T Raww 2016, which was released last month. It is sold at online emporium Revolve as well as at Daniel Patrick’s bricks-and-mortar boutique on Los Angeles’ Melrose Avenue and his label’s website (www.danielpatrick.us).

Buttons on the Tyga collaboration jeans bear a “T” in honor of the music star’s name. They bear a strap on the left side of the pant. “It’s a nylon webbing strap; it’s almost that you are wearing a military belt,” Daniel Patrick said.

Keeping with an aesthetic that bridges the minimal with the alternative, the jeans come in a couple of colorways—but not denim’s ubiquitous indigo blue. Rather they come in black and “natural,” which Daniel Patrick describes as an off-white. The Tyga collection pants retail for $300. Denim in the main line ranges from $225 to $275. The Daniel Patrick label also makes denim jackets for men. Along with the jackets being oversize, not form-fitting, they also bear a round military-style collar.

In 2017, the Daniel Patrick label will expand the denim category to its women’s division. The label is also on a retail roll. In April, it opened a boutique on 7967 Melrose Ave. by the intersection of Melrose and Fairfax avenues in Los Angeles. Next month, the label is scheduled to open a 1,700-square-foot store in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood.

“When I went shopping, SoHo was my favorite place to shop,” said Daniel Patrick, who grew up in Sydney, Australia. “Melrose was my first taste of fashion in Los Angeles.”