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The Avantex innovation award goes to pigmentOCO

Washed denim inspires Gap’s first handbag collection

Record sales for Urban Outfitters’ Q2

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Abercrombie & Fitch delivers 15th quarter of growth

The New Albany, Ohio-based retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has reported net sales of $1.3 billion in its second quarter, an increase in 5% compared to the prior year, marking the 15th quarter of consecutive sales growth. Revenues are up for both...

Organic cotton programme advances in Pakistan
The Organic Cotton Accelerator, with support from Sustainable Agriculture Water & Intelligent Ecosystem (SAWIE),...
Change ahead for Old Navy
Fashion group Gap has reported revenues of more than $7.1 billion for the first half of its current financial year, the ...
Lenzing votes capital increase to “grow nonwovens, reset textiles”
Austrian manmade cellulosic fibre manufacturer Lenzing convened an extraordinary general meeting earlier this week that ...
Production begins at Hyosung’s bio-BDO plant
Fibre producer Hyosung has begun commercial production of its 50,000-ton-per-year Bio-BDO plant in Ho Chi Minh City,...
Calvin Klein launches 'Feel the Fit' denim campaign
US brand Calvin Klein has announced its autumn “Feel the Fit” denim campaign, with the first instalment starring Grammy ...
Levi Strauss formally objects to start-up’s trademark submission
Denim brand Levi Strauss & Co has registered its opposition to the registration of a new trademark request from a...

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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 consideration. Each piece is individually reworked to appeal to “the girl who has spent years feeling like denim just wasn’t made with her in mind”. You started by reworking...

Clocking On with Emily Gubbay
Emily Gubbay has devised a method to extract indigo from denim and jeans that...
Cut from a different cloth
Matthew Hegarty, founder of London-based brand Hegarty, sees denim and...
“Collaboration between industry and academia allows for fresh perspectives”
Professor Kate Goldsworthy is the director of Future Denim Lab, an ambitious...
Clocking On with Nikita Raman
Nikita Raman’s experience across categories, segments and countries helps shape ...
Gap builds on its indigo foundations
Jane Pattinson, senior vice-president and global head of design at Gap,...

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Fast track textile-to-textile recycling

Kipas is breaking down the barriers to recycling mixed textile waste with FibR-e. The facility, which began operating at the end of last year, can recycle 100 tonnes of waste per day.“Our solution is a fast-track textile-to-textile recycling system,” says...

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 ...
Is there life on planet wool denim?
In our common memory, denim is and has always been a blue fabric made of...
A chain under strain
The denim industry in Turkey faces multiple challenges from falls in demand and ...
Recycling ‘blocker’ fibre enters new age
As Lycra’s partially bio-based elastane hits commercial volumes, Fashion for...