Denim Tears’ most famous pieces are often made in collaboration with Levi’s, a brand that symbolizes the mythos of American rugged individualism. By repurposing Levi’s jeans with his own iconography, Emory is not merely adding design to denim—he’s rewriting a narrative. He reframes Levi’s, not as a symbol of frontier freedom, but as a silent witness to centuries of systemic exploitation. The Levi’s x Denim Tears jeans create a collision between myth and reality, past and present.