Chrome Hearts Levi's 501 Drake CLB Black & Red Cross Jeans Black

These are the Chrome Hearts Levi's 501 Cross Jeans in black from the Drake CLB collaboration — Levi's 501s rebuilt in the Chrome Hearts workshop with black and red leather crosses set across them by hand, tied to Drake's Certified Lover Boy era. Buy them if you want the pair where Chrome Hearts denim and one of the most documented collaborations in the brand's recent history land in the same garment.

The base is black cotton Levi's 501 denim with the button fly, straight leg and five-pocket construction left untouched. The crosses are cut from leather in black and red and stitched on one at a time, so the red carries as the accent against an all-black base and every patch sits raised with its stitching visible rather than printed flat. Leather takes on its own sheen and softens where it creases, so the patches age with the denim instead of cracking off it. That makes these the loudest thing in a fit by design — a plain tee, boots and a leather jacket is the whole outfit, and nothing else has to work hard.

They're for the collector who buys on provenance: someone who knows what CLB was and wants the Chrome Hearts piece attached to it, not a first designer purchase.

What separates them from the rest of Chrome Hearts' cross patch denim is the collaboration. CLB-era pieces were produced in small numbers and never re-run, and because each pair starts as an individual pair of 501s, the wash and the placement of every leather cross belong to this one pair and can't be reproduced.

This pair has been tailored, so go by the measurements rather than the tag — waist 36.5 inches, inseam 30 inches, total length 40 inches. Tagged size 34, one pair in stock.