The story

Calvin Klein was founded in New York in 1968 and became one of the names that made designer jeans a phenomenon in the late 1970s and 1980s. The approach has always been pared back: clean shapes, little decoration and denim that lets the cut do the talking.

The denim

Straight, classic five-pocket jeans with a minimal finish are the core of the label's denim.

Why it's on jeans.com

Few labels did more to make jeans fashion. Calvin Klein's clean, easy denim belongs in any edit.