From food to motorcycles, any Italian manufacturer will tell you quality products begin with quality ingredients. The same can be true with Made in Italy denim by Imatex. Since 1923, the Annunzi family has prepared warps for weaving their fabrics with old handlooms. In 1990, the...
Tricia Carey, Director of Global Business Development for Denim at Lenzing, visits denim mills in Vietnam and China and shares her experience with Carved in Blue. ------------------------------ After the trade show circuit, I thought it would be a good time for a denim road trip. Over the...
This fall, the Lenzing Team crisscrossed their way across the globe (and in some cases, were in two place at once) to find the best denim has on offer for the Spring/Summer 2018 season. Mills presented their seasonal updates in performance, sustainability and fashion at Kingpins...
Is vertically integrated manufacturing a gateway to a more sustainable future? For Soorty, the Pakistan mill with a strong U.S. and European client base, it’s fully-vertical capabilities have been an essential key to designing the innovative and quality products its value-seeking customers want. “We are always...
Working our way across the world, the Lenzing team will be attending many denim industry’s trade shows, conferences and summits taking place this fall. Let’s connect. Find us at any of these upcoming events, or e-mail denim@lenzing.com for an invite or to set up a meeting. Premiere...
Founded as a small denim weaving factory in 1995 with just a few dozen machines to process denim fabrics, China’s Prosperity Textile has grown into a huge operation in just over two decades. With more than 20 offices around the world, and with more than...
Athleisure apparel earns high marks for being comfortable and soft—qualities that until recently were unfamiliar territory for the denim market. Rather than allow activewear to gain market share, denim is biting back with innovations in indigo knits led by mills in China. The country has become...
One of Northern China’s largest denim enterprises, Blue Diamond Denim is well-known for its use of high quality materials including Lenzing TENCEL® and Lenzing Modal®, and was a key supply chain partner for Lenzing’s 4S collection. All told, the vertically integrated company has an annual...
Taiwan is home to one of the textile industry’s most historic denim facilities, A&A Textile. With over 50 years of heritage in the nation’s apparel sector, A&A Textile develops cutting edge fabric that is transformed into beautiful, high fashion denim. As a top fancy denim...
Turkey’s historic textile hub Adana serves as the backdrop to a story of spinning and weaving that goes back centuries. With the establishment of the then state-owned Sumerbank in 1933, private enterprises stimulated by government incentives bloomed in the early 1950s, enabling Turkey to transition...
Pakistan may not yet be the first place that comes to mind for denim craftsmanship, but that is certainly changing. At Karachi-based Artistic Milliners, product is born out of a passion for protecting those who make it, inspiring those who wear it and leaving little in the...
Denim industry veteran Panos Sofianos and the Bluezone team has been working on the introduction of a new denim concept this year at textile trade show Munich Fabric Start (Aug. 30-Sept. 1). In April, Sofianos was brought on as the manager of Bluezone, Munich Fabric...