If you talk to Rhonda Wyrick about denim, it’s easy to see why she’s spent over three decades working in the textile industry As a customer relations and order coordinator at Cone Denim, where she’s been for the last 15 years, Rhonda knows the pivotal role...
It would be easy to assume that today’s young denimheads want to get out with the old and in with the new, but that would be a mistake. For young guns like Caitlyn Holt of Cone Denim’s Elevate Textiles, denim’s heritage is more than worth...
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...
With an updated trade agreement, prime positioning for speed to market and increasingly innovative denim, Mexico is on track to shine in 2019. To get the scoop on the denim scene in Mexico, Carved in Blue caught up with four key leaders in the space. Hear...
Always a leader, Cone Denim has now taken denim sustainability a step further by making the beloved fabric more sustainable. This week, Cone Denim announced that its denim fabrics will be made with sustainable TENCEL™ x REFIBRA™ branded lyocell fibers. The move means Cone Denim is...
Cone Denim has long been known for bringing to market what the market wants before the market even realizes it wants it. Though the leading denim supplier recently announced that it would cease production in its 110-year-long running White Oak mill in Greensboro, North Carolina, Cone...
A secret garden is a treasure trove all on its own, but when it’s a secret garden made entirely of denim, bluebloods—and even those without an insatiable love for denim—go crazy. That’s what innovative artist Ian Berry is delivering to the public with his latest work...
Providing further proof that performance and sustainability can coexist, Lenzing has partnered with a leader in denim and a leader in recycled fibers to bring a product to market that takes denim to a whole new level. Cone Denim, a mill that has been innovating in...
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...
Though it doesn’t share the same consumer-level name recognition as Levi’s, 125-year-old Cone Denim shares with that storied jeans maker a heritage of American-made denim. In fact, Cone has supplied Levi’s with much of its fabric for 100 years, including at times being the exclusive...
In today’s market, brand positioning is about more than just the brand—it’s also about the mills making the product. Before transparency crept into the realm of apparel industry buzzwords and consumers began to care more about where their clothes came from, mills didn’t market directly to...