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Levi’s rolls out AI assistants as part of plan to reach $10bn

Levi Strauss & Co has worked with Microsoft to develop an AI orchestration platform built around a single “super-agent” to simplify and automate task-driven work throughout the organisation. The idea for STITCH came from Michael...

New CEO to drive Accelerating Circularity’s next phase
Accelerating Circularity, a non-profit building circular systems to turn used textiles into new raw materials, has...
Beximco Textiles set to reopen
Revival, a Japanese-Bangladeshi group, has announced it will be leasing the Beximco Textile facility which had closed...
Preface adds denim angle with Here|After and Denim Dudes
Boutique US-based textiles show Preface is collaborating with Swedish collective Re/Assenbly for a two-day event in Los ...
Resortecs announces new €6 million funding round
Belgian sustainable tech company Resortecs has closed a Series A funding round of €6 million. Contributors include ...
Zac Posen’s Gap Studio launches menswear
The American retailer’s upscale line, Gap Studio, reintroduced by the company’s creative director Zac...
Arvind to convert cotton stalk to biomass to further coal-free goal
India-based textiles and clothing manufacturer Arvind Limited and investment firm Peak Sustainability Ventures are...

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Adriano Goldschmied on the potential of digital printing

The ‘Godfather of Denim’ tells Inside Denim how he sees advances in technology adding another dimension in terms of design and flexibility Describing it as the mere “tip of the iceberg”, Adriano Goldschmied has told Inside Denim how he ...

Miles Johnson on why true denim sustainability demands collaboration, not competition
Consultant Miles Johnson acknowledges the dichotomy between balancing profit...
Clocking On...Terrence Ruggiero - A day in the off-season
After years in Manhattan, Lunasalt Denim founder Terrence Ruggiero swapped one...
Playing to its own fashion rhythm
Claudiu Ciubotaru, marketing director at Bucharest-based denim brand No44, says ...
Heavenly collection
AllSaints’ head of women’s denim, Mariella Ertl, tells Inside Denim how close...
Chemical reactions
What do auxiliary chemicals do exactly and why do we need to know? Denim’s top...

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Stretch in or out?

Jeans are near perfect candidates for mechanical recycling thanks to their high cotton content. But the presence of elastane, nearly as ubiquitous, can be a stumbling block for circularity. Luckily, workarounds are being found as are new solutions to recycle...

A new spin on hemp
Innovation in hemp processing is helping the natural fibre shed its...
Biotech indigo at a tipping point
Disrupting an industry that produces some 70,000 tonnes of petrochemical indigo ...
Lift-off for LaundRE
The doors are finally open to the UK’s washing, upcycling and R&D hub for jeans ...
Melt and spin fibre-to-fibre recycling
Polyester and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) are two different names for the...
Full throttle
The speed, the adrenaline rush… Thanks to innovation in denim, the biker dream...