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For me they're meant to be thrown around worn everywhere. It's something that you should be wearing. You should live in it and it should tell that story of your life. It's like this personal journal an experience . I'm Savannah Yarbrough and we are at the until I have us to one of the first pieces that I designed when I was working for a bigger company was a leather jacket. That was really flat and wasn't interesting at all. I took the sample home. I put it in my bathtub and I wore it while it dries it molded to me it was different from putting on anything else that I had ever had. I met people in the factories that were actually making these jackets and I learned a lot from those people. It's whether it's a two hundred dollar leather jacket or a ten thousand dollar leather jacket. It's going to last for ever. It's going to change every time they wear it. If it rains you're gonna be okay and your leather jackets can look five times better when it dries the first phase of making one of our leather jackets is meeting with the client. Select the leather that they want any embroidery or specific details that they might also want to add. And we actually draw out the jackets for them. After that we take 32 points of the measurement with the word bespoke. The person who is taking your measurements is also the person that's with your piece. The whole way through. I'm making a jacket that you will be wearing physically myself. I can only make four jackets a month. The second phase is to create the paper pattern based on the measurements. It's two dimensional pieces that will then be put together to create the actual 3D jacket . The arm hole on the shoulder and ise the most complicated place to fit in. I've developed a really great pattern to be able to adapt it for each person. It's a really really beautiful arm hole. As a designer that's the first thing you look at when you look at it. A JACKET OR A COAT. HOW BEAUTIFUL does that sleeping we make a fabric version which is basically a mockup of what their leather jacket will be. There's always some sort of tweaks that have to be done before we actually cut. Once the needle goes through the leather you can't take back that hole . There's always gonna be a hole where the needle was when I sell a leather when they make their skin that leather is no longer going to be available to any other client. Oh I thought my friend Joe when he was in this really cool red leather jacket. I want that jacket. I want that leather. I won't sell it to me. We will find you another red leather and you will have your own one of a kind piece . Jack that I'm wearing is this really buttery soft caps again as silk lining and it's a Western Europe detail here Silver zippers . And people feel like they're like oh my gosh what is the third step involves cutting. We lay out all of the skins . We examine each skin for any nicks or moles any scratches that we may not want on the jacket. Some others are more distressed already. And they show natural grain from the animal. And so you you want that in the jacket . How are all 50 of these pattern pieces going to actually fit into these hives that are whole different sizes. Each one is was a different animal . The embroidery it's a lot of fun and it's something that we offer most specifically on the linings of everyone's jackets and give people an opportunity to have this like very personal interior detail. It could be anything. Their nickname or an illustration. It's this private detail that no one knows about because it's on the inside of their the more than seven the brothers are making a jacket. You have to do things like stabilize certain areas like the waist bands the cop and the collars guiding the leather. If it's too thick . Basically cut the thickness of the leather and half gets rid of the box so that when you have seems to fold over it doesn't add really any extra to that which allows the seams to actually lay flatter. It's really just a matter of like getting all of the pieces ready to be sold. The fifth phase is where we actually sit down and so the pieces together. It's not necessarily okay we're gonna sit down I'm sewing machines all gonna be done. So one seam and then you have to iron it flat and roll it out and glue the seam so that everything stays really flush and flat we just moved into our studio downtown Nashville in a neighborhood called Pie Town which has been very up and coming area. I've been here for three and a half years. I've lived in London for five years which is where I studied. I've lived in San Francisco I grew up in Alabama. There's a spirit about Nashville that it's just really great. Within the few years that I was here I felt this growth happen and it's still happening. There's no second thought in my head. Anything else I would rather be doing. There is a leather jacket for everyone . That's why I'm here is to basically help create these pieces that even if it's someone who has never been able to envision themselves in a leather jacket we can we can make that jacket . The most important part of identifying one of my jackets is the visible logo which is stamped in twenty two carat gold on each jacket . Second is the fact especially when viewed from the side. I create this very specific curve on every jacket that I do slightly higher in the back and it drops really beautifully down to the front . And then we deliver the DAX leather jackets always look their best. Ten years after you had the most beautiful thing to me on a leather jacket when I see someone wearing one is the creases in the arm because although like stretches out but you can really just see like now that you know I've been wearing this when it's always got this like really beautiful crease going on. Every experience that you have in that jacket. Something evolves in that material . It's like modern day armor because it gives you this like confidence that you really don't get from any other piece of clothing . You put on your leather jacket and you feel like you can walk out the door and take on the world .