Denim industry veteran Panos Sofianos and the Bluezone team has been working on the introduction of a new denim concept this year at textile trade show Munich Fabric Start (Aug. 30-Sept. 1). In April, Sofianos was brought on as the manager of Bluezone, Munich Fabric...
At Project New York Men’s (July 17-19) at the Jacob Javits Center, brands proved that interesting design is not just for women’s product. As the major men’s denim trend continues to be the dominance of stretch, the old rules for jeanswear are being rewritten. Brands...
Lenzing is introducing a newly developed TENCEL® fiber, which combines pulp from cotton fabric waste and wood pulp cellulose in order to drive circular economy solutions in the textile industry. Lenzing is the first manufacturer worldwide to offer man-made cellulosic fibers incorporating recycled materials on a...
Ebru Debbağ, Orta deputy manager of product development, sales and marketing, has been in the denim industry for 25 years, and, in that time, she has seen a lot of change. When Orta first launched its denim business in the early 80s, the mill produced...
Though jeans are America’s casualwear, putting together a denim collection is no easy feat. On May 12th, Fashion Institute of Technology students in the Textile Development and Marketing (TDM) Department presented collections they had put together for the Denim Project, a capstone course for the...
Enrico Forin, development and marketing manager at Advance Denim, has a double perspective on denim: he works for a mill based in China, a growing location for denim manufacturing, but lives in Amsterdam, one of the top sources of denim culture and trends. In the 25...
Waste in the denim industry has been gaining more attention with collections like G-Star’s Raw for the Oceans and jeans drives from brands like J. Crew and Gap. Waste was also the topic of Kingpins Transformers in Amsterdam in April. Carved in Blue talked further...
Dominic Poon, CEO of Level 99, has created a jeans brand that’s easy to love. Designed to make women look sexy and fashionable, while remaining affordable and wearable, Level 99 has held a strong place in the denim market. In recent collections, the brand has...