Denim is imbued with personal meaning for every wearer, and no one is more aware of that than denim designer and developer Jill Lawrence. She works with some of the world’s most notable brands and denim makers, getting to learn not only the techniques and ideas...
The community that surrounds denim is like no other: passion for the fabrication brings together some of the most brilliant creative minds on the planet. Many of today’s denim industry veterans started out as designers with little knowledge of denim, and have evolved into full-on bluebloods...
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 consumers are shifting and what they’re buying. Here’s a look at what we read this past July: Billions of air pollution particles...
They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, but few are making as much of that concept as Blue of a Kind. The brand “rediscovers and refits” discarded vintage denim handcrafted with the use of leftovers and surplus, because, as its tagline notes, “the world...
Consumers today are demanding more from their denim than ever before. It needs to be comfortable, functional and perhaps most crucially, it needs to be produced responsibly. So the question is what do industry professionals think about the challenge ahead? The “Modern Definition of Denim,” a...
Pick up almost any textile or apparel industry publication and you will be inundated with claims by apparel producers, brands and retailers about joining in or initiating their own high-profile efforts to address the issue of environmental sustainability. There is good reason to do so,...
Denim is getting cleaner and leaders in the space are tapping into the raw materials and new technologies to keep their own products green. CLOSED, a Hamburg, Germany-based clothing brand, is one of them. The company, in partnership with Candiani, has launched “A Better Blue” line...
Ian Berry’s newest art installation lets you swan-dive right into denim. Known for his unique work using only denim jeans, the newest exhibit from the London-based artist turns denim to water in bright pieces inspired by The Golden State. [caption id="attachment_6519" align="alignleft" width="300"] Credit: Shirley Zheng[/caption] “Hotel California”...
Berlin trade show, Panorama, revealed last week a first look at the fashion themes due to dominate Northern Europe’s high streets. And with nostalgia, sustainability and color at the base of most collections, it appears the denim category is comfortable exploring many of the same themes...
As the denim and apparel industry moves toward more natural materials and inputs, some are leading the changes in developing those materials for an industry in need. That’s one of the things that faculty and students at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, Turkey, are working...
When an entire organization is centered around sustainability in materials, it pays to find out what its CEO thinks of where the sector is headed. That’s why Carved in Blue caught up with Giusy Bettoni, CEO of C.L.A.S.S., a global resource for smart material innovation, education,...
ElleTi laundry in San Bonifacio, Italy, held an event on June 19th to inaugurate a denim museum and showcase their gigantic reference library. [caption id="attachment_6415" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Images by Anna Aldighieri[/caption] A few hundred lucky members of the denim community had the opportunity to view the Stadium...