AGOLDE

AGOLDE was founded in 2014 in Los Angeles by Adam Goldenberg, a co-founder of the e-commerce conglomerate TechStyle. The brand emerged from Goldenberg's frustration that premium denim — which Los Angeles had pioneered through brands like Citizens of Humanity and 7 For All Mankind — had become predictable and commercially formulaic. AGOLDE was conceived to take a Tokyo-craft-influenced approach to vintage denim, hand-finished and small-batch. The AGOLDE vocabulary settled around oversized vintage-cut denim silhouettes — the Riley, the Pinch Waist, the 90s — produced in Los Angeles using vintage shuttle looms and hand-wash treatments that replicate decades-aged finishes. The brand's reissue of 1990s American denim cuts at a contemporary price point has positioned it precisely between vintage purists and the streetwear-adjacent customer who wants worn-in fits without sourcing actual vintage. AGOLDE is owned by Citizens of Humanity Group (the same parent company that owns Citizens of Humanity, Goldsign, and Madewell denim production). Production is largely in Los Angeles, with washing and finishing at the brand's own facility. The brand operates a single flagship at the Citizens of Humanity store on La Brea Avenue plus extensive wholesale through Net-a-Porter, SSENSE, and others. Few denim brands of the past decade have so completely defined the 'elevated vintage' tier of contemporary American denim.