Growing up as a Rosso meant early exposure to the inner workings of the denim industry for Stefano Rosso, son of Diesel founder Renzo Rosso and heir to the Italian denim brand’s empire. Diesel has been known for its alternative luxury vibe and innovative denim since...
From modest beginnings 25 years ago, the importance of TENCEL® fibers in the apparel market has steadily grown such that today denim makers and designers turned to it to create garments for the weekend, the workplace, and the runway. Finally the importance of sustainability, the...
Performance hasn’t gone hand in hand with sustainability so far, but some brands in the space are hoping to change that. However, in an industry that’s among the most fragmented, where one link in the supply chain often doesn’t know what the other’s doing, the...
Denim has been in high demand for more than a few seasons, but for what’s coming up, brands may be looking to add a little more color to their lines. A walk through the denim area of Premiere Vision Paris is evidence of that fact, as...
Saitex CEO Sanjeev Bahl wholeheartedly believes that garment manufacturers and apparel brands can do well and do good for people and the earth. Saitex is a garment manufacturer, specializing in denim and other over-dyed products, based in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, across the Saigon bridge, about 20 miles...
Requirements for denim are complex and demanding in today’s world. Styles are at least as diverse as their wearers, comfort is a must for dynamic lifestyles—and consumers have a conscience, too. Fashionistas have particular expectations about how denim should fit and feel. Beyond that, they...
Life continues in the fast lane for which we need enhanced performance. Performance fabrics are still the future of everyday wear. Athleisure / Active Lifestyle dressing is shifting from leggins and performance knits to performance denims. You can now do in your jeans what you could do...
When it comes to a love for denim, it was ‘like mother, like daughter’ for the leading ladies of DL1961 Premium Denim Inc. For Sarah Ahmed, the creative director for DL1961, joining her family’s business—where her mother, Maliha Ahmed, is the CEO—after finishing her degree at...
This year at Bluezone, the denim portion of the bi-annual Munich Fabric Start, held September 5-7, mills, fiber manufacturers and technology companies got back to work after their summer, sharing ideas about speedier yet environmentally responsible apparel production. Fashion and sustainability has long been a core...
There’s no shortage of need-to-knows in denim—and the retail industry as a whole—and it all goes into the business of blue. Every month, Carved in Blue scours the web for the hottest topics in the sector—from who’s making what, to what’s innovative and new, to how...
NYDJ is pulling out all the stops to give women the perfect fitting pair of jeans. The spring season saw NYDJ rolling out its “Fit is Everything” campaign to capture real women and jeans that work, and highlight how critical that is to feeling good about...
The two companies, so important to the history and ongoing innovation in denim, are celebrating their hometown in North Carolina with a day they call “Jeansboro.” A series of painted fiberglass sculptures of pants, complete with rivets and back pockets, is getting noticed as more...