In honor of Kingpins Amsterdam, taking place Oct. 23-24, Carved in Blue thought there was no better time than now to touch base with the mills that consider TENCEL™ x REFIBRA™ Denim to be a crucial part of their collections. It’s been over two years since...
Turkish mill Bossa boasts 68 years in the industry. Advance Denim has been working for more than 30 years to develop durable, sustainable denim. In other words, you could say these mills bring a global heritage to this year’s New York Denim Days. Carved in Blue...
If you’re looking for denim inspiration, Hong Kong is a place to find it too. Specifically, you’ll find it at the bustling street fair that is the Hong Kong Denim Festival. Attendees from all walks of the blueblood life descended on the fair to peruse the latest...
The world of denim has long been a very polluted one, but one conscious company at a time seems to be shifting that narrative. Advance Denim, which says it was the first denim mill in China, has been working for more than 30 years to develop...
Mills are demonstrating their latest denim advancements using TENCEL® and Refibra™ branded lyocell fibers, proving that sustainability and performance in denim needn’t be mutually exclusive. Count Basie, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis were just a few of the great jazz artists drawn to New...
Denim, it seems, is going the way of personalization too. Tapping into what’s been a key trend in retail—giving consumers more of that they actually want, a product that’s customized to cater to them— the CORDURA® brand has debuted its latest denim trends collection that speaks...
A new season brings fresh indigo ideas, creative concepts and next level of innovation. Mills are preparing to debut their Autumn/Winter 2018-19 collections at Kingpins Amsterdam (April 19-20), Denim Première Vision in Paris (April 26-27) and Kingpins New York ( May 10-11), enhancing familiar concepts like...
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...
Enrico Forin, development and marketing manager at Advance Denim, has a double perspective on denim: he works for a mill based in China, a growing location for denim manufacturing, but lives in Amsterdam, one of the top sources of denim culture and trends. In the 25...