"Jackie Bartolo, West Coast sales manager for Velvet Heart, a California-based brand with contemporary lifestyle pieces, said that it is known for its TENCEL™ shirts but also offers a bit of everything, from shirts and sweaters to jackets and shackets. Bartolo said the brand is all...
"Lenzing’s approaches to sustainability REFIBRA™ technology, recycling post-industrial and consumer cotton waste, were joined by TENCEL™ Modal Indigo Color solution-dyed fiber for the denim sector, TENCEL™ Eco Clean, and carbon-zero fibers. Long-term Lenzing is looking to its biorefinery, deriving viscose, modal and lyocell fibers of...
"Madewell's 'Heritage Stretch' material, which is made from cotton, TENCEL™, and lyocell, provides the already slouchy fit with enough give to move with your body, unlike traditionally rigid denim. Knowing this, I ordered a size down from my usual, and the fit is practically perfect....
"XDD Denim also incorporates Lenzing materials into its denim fabrics, including TENCEL™ Lyocell, ECOVERO™ and Modal, as well as TENCEL™ x REFIBRA™. Bringing these fabrics to life helps the manufacturer create sustainable denim with a soft hand feel. The fabrics have been significant pillars for XDD’s...
"The collection is anchored by NYDJ’s signature mom jeans, wide-leg jeans, shorts with frayed hems, Bermuda shorts and an oversized utility shacket, both made with 100 percent organic cotton. Garments are finished using ozone, which the brand says saves 83 percent water, 39 percent chemicals...
"Turkish denim brand Mavi also increased its focus on sustainability for the upcoming season, teasing its first ever sustainability report. While details of the report are still to come, a preview points to water-, chemical- and energy-saving targets the brand is working to accomplish over the next...
"The sustainable focus is just the beginning for Mango, which in just one year nearly doubled the percentage of sustainable garments in its total production: 80 percent of its garments now fall under the Committed label, meaning they contain at least 30 percent sustainable fibers...
"Level 99, which offers a limited series line of jeans made from pre- and post-consumer waste, presented cropped wide-leg jeans and lavender jeans, which nod to WGSN’s color of the year for 2023. The brand also showed bottoms made with linen/TENCEL™ fabrications. Wash Lab Denim, which has...
"The Ellen McArthur Foundation’s Jean Redesign guide has a dramatic impact on improvements that designers can bring about but also has a lot of influence in the industry. Circularity is the subject of these times. The jean has to be more durable, biodegradable and ready...
"As a green pioneer, Boyish—which can be found at Boyish.com—walks the walk by working with Carbonfund.org to purchase carbon offsets for the Sidrapong Hydroelectric Power Station in Darjeeling, India, to combat the small amounts that the Los Angeles denim brand produces along the supply chain. Boyish also partners with 1% for...
"A jersey jacket in Loro Piana cashmere that Watson described as a 'tailored sweater' is one of the pieces the company’s Montreal factory had never manufactured before. It joined windowpane plaid jackets, fine-gauge sweaters, and moisture-wicking TENCEL™ shirts available in a variety of colors. Other...
"Brittany McLaughlin, Closed’s East Coast account manager, said 85 percent of the collection is 'eco-friendly' and the company is working towards 100 percent in the next four years. Denim, however, has been a major source for savings, thanks in part to Closed partnership with Italy’s...