At its launch, the apparel business quickly warmed up to indigo chambray fabric with TENCEL™ branded Lyocell fibers and it soon became a classic product. Today chambray with TENCEL™ fibers has become a core base for many fabric mills and core basic in many women’s...
Yes, denim requires a seismic shift in sustainability, but there’s perhaps no industry that’s better positioned to pull it off. Flanked by baby boomers determined to leave a strong legacy and a younger generation of ambitious, demanding denimheads, Kaltex America’s Rich Tobin, VP Sales and...
Welcome to the reinvention of denim. In the second episode of Carved in Blue’s Modern Definition of Denim video series, industry stakeholders examine how experimenting with fibers can make your favorite jeans even better. Able to deliver high quality and meet mounting consumer expectations, fibers like TENCELTM...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
Manchester-based Amanda Barnes is a designer with an eye for the most beautiful parts of denim. At 23oz.indigo, she catalogues denim at every point in its life cycle, from hand-crafted recycled creations to mesmerizing shots of denim mills in production. Barnes shared her favorite denim...
Circularity is gaining award-winning recognition. At the recent ITMA in Barcelona, Italian denim producer Candiani SpA won the show’s Sustainable Innovation Award for its Re-Gen fabric. The circular denim fabric made from regenerated and recycled raw materials uses 50 percent REFIBRA™ technology by TENCEL™—which is comprised of pulp...
Ani Wells is a denim designer and blogger and the owner of Simply Suzette, a sustainable denim shop. Simply Suzette features ethically-produced fabrics, traceable fibers, and upcycled products. Check out what Ani Wells told Carved in Blue about honing in on sustainability after a lifelong love...