Our forever muse, longtime model and wise beyond her years go-to for all things inspirational, Dronme Davis, has teamed up with us to create her perfect pair of jeans. Made in LA and meticulously crafted to be lived in, day to night — from gardening with Granny and barefoot dancing in the kitchen to nights out and about, the Dronme jean is here to celebrate all of life’s moments.

Allow me to illustrate for you the circumstances in which this collaboration came into being.

I was on a photoshoot with the DÔEN team shooting an upcoming collection a couple years ago. It was a deliciously warm day in Santa Barbara, California. Hummingbirds were darting around our heads, sweet melodies were flowing from one of Helen’s expertly crafted playlists, and I was posing on a brick wall, meticulously angling my body in an attempt to conceal the old mustard smudges and impossible to get out period blood stains that had weathered my favorite and only pair of jeans. My stealth attempts to shield the markings of these very lived in jeans didn’t go unnoticed. I had to explain:

My monogamous, albeit toxic relationship with these illustrious pants was something of a fluke. One of my friends had forgotten them at my house after some soiree in college (boxed wine and physical anthropology flashcards), and by the time she realized her mistake, a deep bond had already formed between myself and those size thirty-two high-waisted straight- leg baby blues. She graciously agreed to a trade, there was a jumpsuit of mine that she had been coveting for a while, it was a win-win.

Jump ahead two years, camera ready at the DÔEN shoot, I was still fully wedded to this singular pair of now unrecognizable denim . My defense of my most loved pants — that they were “cool dirty, ya know, in a vintage girl-who-goes-on-spontaneous-road trips typa way” had lost its viability and was now just the sweaty ramblings of a woman deep in denial. This shoot was my intervention, and I was mentally preparing myself for the task of finding a new pair of jeans. But, to me, shopping for jeans was a dreaded experience — that meant inconsistent sizing and blinding dressing room lighting and having the “Is low-rise a thing again? Oh, god no” conversation between me and my laptop screen. My enthusiasm and excitement was at a disastrously low level, which, when it comes to me and shopping, is pretty rare. I made my struggle known.

Days after that sunny and personally illuminating afternoon in Santa Barbara, one of the angelic DÔEN gals rang me with an idea. “What if we make a pair of jeans together? You can’t be the only one in this predicament.” And the rest is history…

Actually, the rest is two years of Zoom meetings and squat tests and tossing and turning at night over which washes to choose. “Are these too blue? Are these too gray? Does anyone actually care what the back pockets look like? How stretchy should they be? I need to be able to wear them to an intimidating restaurant but also roll around on my floor and crouch over my herb garden.” Needless to say, a great deal of care and time and love was poured into these sweet jeans because, as noted, I certainly know the attachment we form with our favorites. These are for every day, they’re for really living your life — whether that’s full of glamour or it’s a beautiful mess, they’re to make you feel good and to celebrate the body you’re moving through this life in.

I hope you love them as much as I do.

Love, Dronme