The pandemic has given consumers a chance to pause, reset and reconsider their shopping habits. As the retail world looks to return to normal, suppliers and brands are going to be courting a shopper who is even more mindful of environmental and social responsibility. Carved in Blue gathered executives...
"Also the fabric we chose was made without using any fresh cotton as it is made of 50% recycled cotton and 50% TENCEL's™ REFIBRA fiber saving 2,565 liters of water. Even the indigo dyes are a special technology that only requires a fraction of water...
"On Friday, the two will launch their first denim collaboration, Dim Mak x Candiani EC-01. The limited-edition, five-pocket jeans are crafted from recycled cotton and fibers including Candiani’s ITMA Sustainable Innovation Award-winning indigo selvage fabric ReGEN Denim created for the 80th anniversary of the Candiani...
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...
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...
Leave it to one of Italy’s most premium denim suppliers to create a premium way to present its most sustainable fabric. Taking to video, Candiani tells us the story of Re-Gen, its innovative 80th Anniversary fabric, using characters, a unicorn and clear insight on what makes...
Too often, the heroes in denim aren’t the ones on the front lines getting all the face time. Sometimes, it’s those working on the ground that are truly doing denim’s duty and fueling the process that creates the fabric we all know and love. In this...
Bluezone maintained its role as a catalyst for sustainable technologies and innovation in denim. Mills exhibiting at the Munich-based trade show this week presented focused collections that tapped into the German market’s demand for ecological concepts, soft hand feels and bi-stretch. From a Los Angeles event...
More than 100 international players in the denim supply chain, including Candiani, Orta, Royo, Blue Diamond, Atlantic Mills, Calik, Santanderina, Unitin, Soorty, Arvind, and more will converge in Munich, Germany for Bluezone January 30 -31st. The denim and technology event draws innovators and creatives from...
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...
If denim could come to life on a computer screen, it would unfold like the posts on the @bookofdenim Instagram page. With an Amsterdam based denim magazine called Code, it only made sense for the mag’s editor-in-chief Peter van Rhoon to follow that with an indigo-laden...
So much of denim’s roots run deep through generations of makers, who pass down the craft to maintain the company’s history and heritage, that we decided to start a summer series called “All in the Family,” just to highlight their heritage and what they bring...