Denim – the ever versatile fabric –has seen growth over the last 130 years like no other fabric has seen. We can easily associate denim with fashion , comfort, durability , verstaility , sturdiness and whole lot of such qualities.  But is there any association of denim with Charity , with Social causes , with an effort to improve lives ???? Normally , it is difficult to find such an association. Orta Anadolu (Turkey) is one of the most reputed denim mill around the world and it is one ...Read More

With Christmas approaching and the new year 2012 right in front of us , I would like to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and A Very Happy New Year. May this year be full of Happiness  , Health  and Success for all of you ! I would like to thank all of you for the extraordinary support that has been provided to Denimsandjeans.com – as  a result of which it has become the most read site on ‘Denim Industry’ with professionals from top denim brands, garment ...Read More

All of us in the apparel / textile industry  surely know about Li & Fung Limited – the global trading group supplying high-volume, time-sensitive consumer goods.    Garments make up a large part of the Li & Fung business which also covers the sourcing of hard goods such as fashion accessories, furnishings, gifts, handicrafts, home products, promotional merchandise, toys, sporting goods and travel goods. But do we know enough about this company ? Let’s see ...Read More

Benedikt Luedke is a fashion designer from Netherlands .As  a part of his dissertation  he is taking a survey – “Good Denim”  – and it will be  a part of his   MA Fashion and the Environment at London College of Fashion . We are supporting him to gather data on jeans usage so that we can look at some interesting results which will be published on our site. The survey takes about 1 – 3 minutes to complete. You can see all questions on one ...Read More

  Denimsandjeans.com is now iPhone friendly. So many of our readers who wished to easily check our reports through their iphone – can now be happy! How to read the latest denim reports on iphone ? Just open the ‘Safari’ browser on iphone and open www.denimsandjeans.com.  You would see the above image immediately on site opening Also not only the reports , you can check out easily our different pages and categories , tags etc easily from the iphone without needing to see ...Read More

What is the GSM of a 10.5 oz fabric ? What is the linear weight of a 14 oz fabric with a width of 165 cm ? What is the oz/sq.yd of a  fabric if one mtr weighs 800 gms ? What is the GSM of a fabric if  it weighs 200 grams and has 150 cm width? How much time would you need to find the answers to these questions? Well, we have designed some calculators which will help you to find the answers to them in  a ‘second’..  These are the first in the series of our ...Read More

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Bayer CropScience and New York-based textile and apparel company Olah Inc. (owners of the famous KINPGINS SHOW )  have signed a licensing agreement to use the Bayer CropScience cotton brand names FiberMax® and Stoneville®. Under this ten-year agreement, Olah has been granted an exclusive license to develop and market the two brands for apparel and home furnishings. The agreement covers initially North America, Mexico and Japan and can be extended to more countries. It also includes the ...Read More

We are pleased to announce that we have created a new denim videos section at Denimsandjeans.com. This section has a collection of denim videos related to all aspects of denim production – from cotton growing to retailing and advertising of jeans. Currently we are starting with a small number of these videos and this section will be continuously updated so that you don’t need to look for denim related videos at any other place !. Here is how to use this section : Step 1 : Go to to Videos ...Read More

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Denim sparks creativity not only in those who  manufacture  but also in people who are not related to the industry at all. Eg, Christian D Bruun  and Mark Romeo have been attracted enough to denim to make a full film on it and to have shot it all over the world.  They are  not in any way connected with the denim industry and I asked Christian why he is putting in the efforts to do this movie and he replied: “We are fascinated by the fact that almost the entire world ...Read More

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We are pleased to announce the launch of our Denim Jobs Board . This board enables you to find the most lucrative denim jobs – especially from USA. We had previously also provided to our readers the facility to search for denim jobs on our  Denim Jobs Search Engine. However the denim jobs board goes a step further and enables you to see the most recent denim jobs – as sooner as yesterday.. The jobs are from reputed companies including Gap, 7 For All Mankind, VF, Lucky Jeans, ...Read More

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