Levi’s Links With Rolling Stone to Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Magazine, Iconic Styles

GOLDEN OLDIES: Levi’s and Rolling Stone have inked a year-long partnership, kicking off at the South by Southwest Festival, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Levi’s Type III Trucker jacket, the 505 jean and the magazine. Both brands were founded in San Francisco and played prominent roles in the city’s 1967 Summer of Love movement, which is also celebrating its 50th anniversary this summer. The companies collaborated on a limited-edition collection of clothing and accessories. At its launch on March 11, the collection will range from $15 pins to $58 t-shirts to $298 Trucker jackets, available only on levi.com and at the Levi’s Outpost at SXSW. In the fall, the partnership will expand with genre-inspired vintage pieces. “We are very easy bed partners, in a way. Levi’s has been present in the history and evolution of popular music, adopted by musicians and young people who have followed them and founded subcultures. It has unwittingly been features in so many issues of Rolling Stone as they have covered this world,” said Levi’s head of design Jonathan Cheung. He said his spin on the classic jean jacket features a stars-and-stripes motif on the back. The Levi’s Outpost at SXSW will be located at 606 and

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