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Second Inside Denim Raw Talk with Sharabati airs on Nov 18

Jeanologia and Sue Barrett explore camouflage through denim

OTB celebrates 20 years of charitable work

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AGI Denim hires former Lycra executive

Pakistan-based denim mill AGI Denim has announced the appointment of Ebru Ozaydin as Senior Vice President of Product and Business Development. This marks her return to working directly for a mill, as before her position at The Lycra Company as head ...

Pakistan’s denim exporters must ‘accelerate investments to remain competitive’
Pakistan’s denim and textile exporters must accelerate investment in sustainable supply chains, cleaner production...
Levi Strauss appoints new sustainability lead
Following the departure of Jeffrey Hogue, who now holds the same position at Gap Inc, Levi Strauss has appointed...
Supply chain collaboration takes centre stage at Ecomondo
Transparency, measurable environmental performance and closer supply chain collaboration were among the key themes at a ...
Circulose restarts commercial production at Ortviken
Circulose is restarting commercial-scale production plant at Ortviken in Sundsvall, Sweden, following a tough couple of ...
Kuyichi celebrates 25th anniversary
Dutch denim brand Kuyichi has celebrated its 25th anniversary with an event at retailer De Rode Winkel in Utrecht,...
Arvind invests in unspun’s 3D weaving machine
Arvind of India has announced a strategic partnership with unspun, the developer of a novel yarn-to-garment weaving...

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Re-engineering the trucker jacket: David Connolly's performance cotton proposition

David Connolly founded Sustainable Fashion Ventures (SFV) with the ambition of developing performance denim without relying on synthetic fibres. Drawing on technologies developed by Cotton Incorporated, he is working with manufacturing partners in Vietnam to...

Designers’ next dimension
Nikita Raman, a senior designer at Hugo Boss, considers how AI, sustainability, ...
“The solutions already exist. Now denim needs to scale them”
Claudia Giacovelli, country portfolio lead for textiles at the United Nations...
Japan Blue: Strength in the stories
Driven by a rebrand and new partnerships, Japan Blue and Momotaro have seen...
Catapulted from campus: How Ali Grace turned vintage jeans into a multimillion-dollar brand
Vintage Levi’s form the base of every aligrace style, with fit an integral...
Clocking On with Emily Gubbay
Emily Gubbay has devised a method to extract indigo from denim and jeans that...

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Around the world in 75 fades

Wash expert Zennure Danisman, alongside Endrime’s Mohsin Sajid and Sadia Rafique, brought together a remarkable international network of denim specialists to chronicle historic denim pieces and create a new visual and educational record of washing. Mohsin ...

Stretch solutions bet on plant over fossil
In just a few years, renewable, recycled and natural raw materials have given...
Denim’s couture makeover
Designer Christelle Kocher worked with Levi’s to show how beautiful and...
Fast track textile-to-textile recycling
Kipaş is breaking down the barriers to recycling mixed textile waste with...
A creative language in itself
Resins, metallic finishes and coatings are giving designers alternative ways to ...
Momentum grows in ‘battle’ against PP
Suppliers say potassium permanganate’s inclusion on the ZDHC Watchlist sends an ...