Sourcing Journal held its second annual LA Sustainability Summit last week, bringing together multiple tiers of the fashion supply chain to discuss how to move production and product development in a lower impact direction. Themed “A New Way of Thinking,” the event focused on innovations ranging...
Blue Cast is a podcast series from the TENCEL™ Denim team. Each episode features a conversation with a special guest from within the industry or the fringes of the denim community. The following is a recap of Episode 519. Neil Bell’s resume reads like a laundry list...
At Carved in Blue, we believe denim is more than just fabric—it’s a story of people, passion and purpose. Our series Meet the Makers shines a light on the designers, artisans and innovators shaping the future of denim. Through their personal stories and creative journeys,...
One of the historic obstacles in creating a more circular fashion industry has been blended materials. Prevalent polyester-cotton mixed fabrics pose a problem for recyclers, since the two fiber types cannot be processed the same. U.S.-based textile-to-textile recycler Circ has created a hydrothermal processing method for...
Benchmarking across the industry is a valuable instrument in pushing sustainability ahead, since it allows companies to see where they stack up. In two recent sets of rankings from Canopy and EcoVadis, Lenzing Group received top marks, reflecting the work being done in areas such as...
Mud Jeans has made a name for itself in circularity. The Netherlands-based denim brand incorporates post-consumer recycled cotton into its fabrics, takes back its customers’ jeans and pioneered concepts like a jean leasing program that offers an alternative to ownership. Now, Mud Jeans is teaming up...
Synthetic materials make a number of contributions to performance textiles: They are durable, they can add stretch and they are easy to care for. However, conventional synthetics come with a major environmental challenge: they don’t biodegrade. OceanSafe is changing this with its naNea co-polyester that will...
Blue Cast is a podcast series from the TENCEL™ Denim team. Each episode features a conversation with a special guest from within the industry or the fringes of the denim community. The following is a recap of Episode 518. Between tariffs, geopolitical tension, transportation upheaval and other...
The TENCEL™ Denim team had a busy week in Amsterdam that started even before we arrived at Kingpins Show. We kicked off the festivities on Tuesday at a Transformers Foundation event with the title “Equity in Innovation: How do we balance the scales with the value chain?”...
At Kingpins Show Amsterdam last week, the TENCEL™ Denim team introduced our latest fiber offering with the help of a few mill partners. TENCEL™ Lyocell – HV100 takes our standard lyocell staple fiber and makes it appear more cotton like with one move: cutting the fibers...
Denim is having a full-circle moment, as one of the earliest materials used in the production of jeans—hemp—experiences a resurgence. But the way hemp is being used today looks nothing like how the fiber was incorporated into workwear of the 1800s. It’s typically blended with...
Sum London’s brand identity already spans continents, but the London-based label recently went Transatlantic with a runway show staged at New York Fashion Week. Reflecting founder Margaret Sam’s Chinese heritage and British upbringing, Sum London is designed with an East-meets-West lens. Her capsule collection presented during...