Following the strong response to their initial collaboration, Levi’s® and London-based designer Kiko Kostadinov return with a second five-piece menswear collection, delving once again into the interplay between casual utility and refined tailoring.
This latest Levi’s® x Kiko Kostadinov offering places denim at the heart of the narrative, exploring its expressive possibilities while acknowledging its lasting impact on modern American cultural identity. Inspiration is drawn in particular from 20th-century artistic communities, where denim became a medium through which everyday clothing intersected with the worlds of art, social engagement and personal expression.
Historically durable and versatile, denim became an unofficial uniform for artists – worn in studios during the creative process and carried into gallery events, exhibitions, press interviews and social occasions. As denim moved with its wearers between these spheres, it took on new shapes and meanings, quietly challenging expectations of formality in spaces often defined by etiquette and hierarchy.
The collection reflects this ongoing dialogue between practicality and elegance, embracing the subtle friction between workwear heritage and tailored sophistication, and offering garments that reinterpret and recontextualise familiar silhouettes.
Returning from the first release, the Levi’s® x Kiko Kostadinov Articulate Jacket is reimagined in a lightweight 10 oz. mid-blue indigo denim. Traditional trucker construction is honoured through authentic finishing and single-needle stitching, while design details such as reworked pockets, a left-on L tab at the elbow and refined cuff pleats introduce a contemporary sensibility.
The corresponding Levi’s® x Kiko Kostadinov Articulate Jeans complete the look, featuring the same 10 oz. mid-blue denim and incorporating updated knee designs, wider belt loops, special back yoke shaping and a relaxed straight-leg fit that reinvents classic workwear.
Blending everyday style with smarter dressing, the Levi’s® x Kiko Kostadinov Andy Pattern Shirt features a clean, standard cut in a grey-and-white windowpane fabric. Shell buttons, a welted chest pocket and topstitched back yoke add measured refinement suitable for versatile styling.
The collection reaches its most formal expression in the Levi’s® x Kiko Kostadinov Andy Suit Jacket – a slim-cut black blazer crafted from 8 oz. polyester twill with satin lapel accents, structural pleats and precision darting, echoing both black-tie tailoring and Levi’s® Sta-Prest® innovation of the 1960s. Paired with the matching Andy Suit Trouser, featuring wide belt loops, slanted pockets and raw satin edge detailing, the ensemble represents Kostadinov’s technical clarity and Levi’s® heritage sensibility.
This second collaboration continues the partnership’s exploration of how classic materials and codes can be reshaped, balancing heritage and modernity to express a bold vision of contemporary masculinity.
