AG Adriano Goldschmied or AG Jeans is an American clothing company with a focus on denim apparel created with sustainable manufacturing methods. Founded in 2000 in Los Angeles, California, the company is owned by its co-founder, Yul Ku, whose Koos Manufacturing previously produced jeans for several well-known brands. AG Jeans was also co-founded by Italian designer Adriano Goldschmied, who left the company in 2004 and sold his share of the business, as well as his namesake brand, to Ku. The company has 17 retail stores across the United States, including a location on Madison Avenue in New York, which opened in late 2020. Since 2010, AG Jeans has implemented several sustainability measures at its facilities, including a water-filtration system that allows it to operate almost entirely on recycled water.
History
AG Jeans was founded in Downtown Los Angeles in 2000 by Italian designer Adriano Goldschmied and Korean-American jeans manufacturer Yul Ku.[1] The company was initially a collaboration between Goldschmied and Ku's Koos Manufacturing, a producer of denim apparel for several brands including Abercrombie & Fitch, Banana Republic, Gap, J.Crew