Welcome to the Blue Blooded Portfolio
Whenever we’re asked what our favourite thing about denim is, we’ll usually answer something like “the fades.” We’ve realised that’s actually a lie!
Running the risk of sounding a little bit corny and pretentious here, our favourite thing about denim, really, is the people!
For a little over a year from May 2018 to August last year, we’ve posted weekly Q&As with ‘Blue Blooded Instagrammers.’ (You can read all of them here.)
It was a great way to get to know some of the people we’ve been following and admire on Instagram. To learn about how they got into denim, their favourite jeans, their stories.
In collaboration with our in-house photographer, Brian Engblad aka @oddhunt, we’ve now launched a new project, the ‘Blue Blooded Portfolio.’
Session #1: Burg & Schild, January 2020
The first photo session for the Blue Blooded Portfolio took place at the Men’s File party at Burg & Schild during January’s Berlin Fashion Week in January of 2020.
Mats Andersson from Indigofera 
Mirka Markkula from Pinkomo 
Ruedi Karrer aka the Swiss Jeans Freak
Niels aka @endedenim 
Rob from Eat Dust 
Stefanie Kobayashi from Heritage Post 
Matt Brodrick from Freenote Cloth 
Leens from Ondura 
Felix from New Heritage Festival 
Mr. Stetson Eurooe 
Keith Hioco from Eat Dust 
Daniel Werner from Rope Dye 
Alexander Kernlinger
Sebastian Boekholt from Stetson 
Peter Rerskov, store manager at Brund 
Mads Dahlgaard, sales manager at Blue de Gênes 
Maria Klähn from Selvedge Run. 
Rob from Hepcat Store in Lund. 
Moritz Fuchs from the New Heritage Festival. 
Shane Brandenburg from Selvedge Run. 
Josh from Statement Store in Munich. 
Fredy Vuille from VMC in Zurich.
Andrew Chen from 3sixteen 
Phil James from &SONS 
Matt Wilson from Rope Dye 
Takashi ‘Taka’ Okabe from Clutch Magazine 
Fredrik Norin from Indigofera 
Mathieu Peladan from @thedenimmind 
Åse Hansen from Hansen Garments 
Theodoros ‘Thedi’ Pampoukas from Thedi Leathers 
Kay Knipschild from Burg & Schild and Red Wing stores across Germany 
Pawel Bąbała from Faster Dog in Warsaw, Poland
Session #2: Bluezone, February 2020
Our second portrait session took place during the Bluezone trade show in Munich in February 2020.
Wolfgang Klinder, Director of MUNICH FABRIC START 
Sebastian Klinder, Managing Director of MUNICH FABRIC START 
Frank Junker, Creative Director at MUNICH FABRIC START 
Claudia Mynott, Marketing & Communications Director at MUNICH FABRIC START 
Panos Sofianos, Denim Curator of Bluezone 
Tilmann Wröbel, Creative Consultant for Bluezone 
Haman from Hamansutra 
Pierre D’Aveta from J’N’C magazine 
Alice Tonello from Tonello 
Robin Meijerink from Robin Denim 
Guido Wetzels from Blaumann Jeanshosen 
Stefano Aldighieri of another design studio
Jordan Nodarse from Boyish 
Christina Agtzidou 
Torsten from SAAT Munich 
Ian Berry 
Johann Rutloff 
Download the Portraits in Full Resolution
Should you have any desire to download any or all of the portraits in full resolution, you can do so at Brian’s website, oddhunt.com.
Please, if you share them, remember to add ©Brian Engblad in the caption and tag @oddhunt on Instagram.
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