Daniel Corrigan never meant to start a denim line. The Seattle-area native was a fine art student who got his hands on some Japanese denim and ... things sort of took off from there. At first, back in 2007 or so, he started Simon Miller as a men's brand, but eventually, after meeting Chelsea Hansford, who had worked at Opening Ceremony back in the day with Olivia Kim, he found himself in the middle of a full co-ed, bi-coastal ( he's in LA, she's in NY) ready-to-wear line with CFDA approval and all kinds of industry love.

Fall 2016 is the friends' third full collection of organic cotton, baby alpaca, the softest leather and denim made-in-America pieces, and as beautiful as their Chinatown showroom was this past Thursday, you really do have to touch, feel and experience these styles in person.

Each style and color offering is as simple as it can be while still maintaining its own identity and carrying forth an idea: A lightweight sweater rendered in an unfinished burlap-like weave, super supple lamb skin leather given a patent treatment and then cut just slightly askew, a hammered silk trench that hints at being a kimono-and then a shorter boxy-cut version that really sort of is a kimono. Sort of. And those clogs-those bucket bags!

The clean but avant aesthetic coupled with rich textures and a strong French mountain range-inspired color palette make the collection immediately appealing.

But if you know anything about denim-and anyone who has ever shopped for denim knows something about denim-you know that there's an art and a science to crafting a truly excellent pair of jeans. In often cropped, mostly wide or at least straight shapes with understated rinses and perfectly modern unfinished edges, Simon Miller jeans are a sublime expression of their category. Dan and Chelsea might not have set out to be denim experts, and neither one of them has formal design training, but we think you'll agree come fall: they know exactly what they're doing, and then some.

-Laura Cassidy