Trendy labels with the right product can clearly buck the overall downward trend. At AG Adriano Goldschmied, men’s denim sales are up over 40 percent this year, according to design director Sam Ku. Sales have been driven by slim-straight fits and denim blend fabrics with...
At the Kingpins textile show, denim designers benefited from heightened innovation among competitive textile mills that aimed to hit a variety of trends for fall 2012, including supreme softness, novel blends, colored denim and stretchy but strong fabric that has better recovery...
Environmentally and ethically responsible production continues to be a key focus for denim brands and mills, despite resistance from consumers to pay more for sustainable jeans… Indian firm Arvind said it is working with one of its biggest clients, Old Navy, to devise cost-saving fabric...
Denim Valley by Tejidos Royo presented a series of new products like the E-One series of denims made of tencel and cotton and the Dry Goods selection of denims aged with laser treatments. The Spanish brand hosted a laser treating machine that can age denim...
This blend shall offer a smooth, soft and lustrous surface of silk, rayon or tencel. Then, there’s ‘Self Dry’, a new concept that gives linen or hemp fibres the look, appeal and feel of 100% cotton....
A cooperation with Swarovski Elements is one of the highlights of the Bogner Jeans 2011 summer collectionA cooperation with Swarovski Elements is one of the highlights of the Bogner Jeans 2011 summer collection. The two labels’ style collaboration is designed exclusively for women using Tencel...
Denim mills are pushing the frontiers of innovation, from balance-enhancing jeanswear to eco-friendly trims. Denim Valley, a subsidiary of Spanish textiles giant Tejidos Royo, is introducing its EDOS sustainable “hybridenim” fabric line, made from organic cotton blended with fine Tencel fiber that originates from eucalyptus...
Lenzing Fibers has been working with denim mills to blend its cotton with between 20 and 25 percent Tencel, a cellulose fiber produced from eucalyptus. Spain’s Tejidos Royo is combining organic cotton with Tencel for a collection of fabrics called HybriDenim. Lenzing asserts that by...