A conversation with friends and colleagues in the course of a late-night taxi ride during the 2019 Kingpins Amsterdam week spawned what now has become our YouTube channel Blue Lenz. This seemed to be a natural extension of the targeted aim behind our blog Carved...
Lenzing’s latest launch, TENCEL™ Modal with Indigo technology, offers the denim industry an opportunity to think outside the box in using the indigo-dyed fibers. As we debut these fibers on the market, who better than the Godfather of Denim Adriano Goldschmied to pioneer this new...
The lush indigo color has been highly coveted since ancient times. But dyeing fabric in the blue hue has come at a huge environmental cost. Conventional indigo dyeing needs chemicals to make the pigment water soluble. The process of dyeing starts by dissolving the dye in...
The denim industry is quickly changing in response to pressures such as the need for sustainability. As the business looks to tackle these challenges, one way to accelerate innovation is through collaboration with new minds. This year’s Hong Kong Denim Festival is themed “Denim Tomorrow,”...
Indigo is an ancient dye, used by many civilizations - including Mayan, Egyptian, Japanese and Indian cultures. When indigo became a commodity it started its journey via the earliest trade routes finding its way to Greece and Rome around 300 BC. The Greeks named the...
The coronavirus is impacting individuals of all ages. But how is the fashion industry’s next generation of talent experiencing the epidemic? Carved in Blue caught up with three students studying fashion at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (Charlotte B., Claudia R. and Alexis C.) and two students...
Save the date! Denim fans have the opportunity to visit Lenzing, Austria twice in 2020 for a TENCEL™ Denim education, collecting insight on every production point from tree to fiber. Taking place June 8th and September 3rd, the open houses will focus on such things as raw...
As we pass the four-year mark on the establishment of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it’s the perfect time to see how far we’ve come and where we’re heading in our quest for sustainable denim. Adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic...
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...
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...
How should the denim manufacturing industry make jeans by 2025? And what breakthroughs in technology and thinking are needed to make this happen? These will be some of the key talking points at the special session on denim production taking place at the Planet Textiles Summit...
The countdown to New York Denim Days has begun, and while denimheads across the city are eagerly awaiting the festival, perhaps no one is more excited than the brands that are showcasing their newest styles and technology at the event. Carved in Blue spoke with Paige...