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John John and Champion highlight denim & sports

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Saitex outlines challenges as well as progress

Vietnam-headquartered denim mill Saitex has produced its impact report for 2025, detailing progress and lessons learned, as well as showing how its own targets are affected through design and cheaper fibre selection.The report details delays to...

Ministry promotes jute
India’s ministry for textiles has launched a campaign to promote jute, extoling its natural properties. It has...
Momotaro returns to Japan’s natural dyes
Japanese denim brand Momotaro has released a limited edition range dyed with shikon, which it describes as one of...
Magnetic zip goes global
Zip technology developer YKK has made the number-three size of its QuickFree click-TRAK magnetic zipper available...
Lab Denim rebrands as WTRLSS
Digital dyeing specialist Lab Denim is introducing a new company name and branding platform, WTRLSS which was first...
Tonello adds muscle to new Sri Lankan dye and R&D facility
Italian machinery producer Tonello has celebrated the opening of Asahi Innovation Hub in Sri Lanka, a collaboration...
Denim recycling pop-up heads to Chicago
US retailer Revolve and Cotton Incorporated are bringing The Cotton Shop to Chicago’s Fulton Market District from...

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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...