Making economic sense from environmental conciousness is not an easy task. Taking care of environment takes money, but if you can make more money than you spend, it makes great business sense. Kurabo Denim’s Earth Denim does precisely that.  Kurabo has ventured to contribute to reduction in Carbon Dioxide emissions by not burning its denim waste and instead recycling it back as a premium denim !   The Earth Denim is made in three steps: Textile wastes from Kurabo’s ...Read More

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Gordon Heffner is the owner of the Denim shop Blue in Green in New York. This shop is one of the best shops in the world for buying Japanese denims. In an interview to Tokyo Eye, Gordon tells about some specialities of the jeans from Japan and takes us through a tour of Tokyo denim market. Some highlights of the video: Have a look at Green tea dyed, Persimmon dyed or even MUD dyed jeans . Sugarcane denim made from 50% sugarcane extract is also interesting. Distressing of jeans: Can you age ...Read More

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Japan Fashion Week recently concluded in Tokyo. Besides the usual show, there was an exhibition on the denim industry in Japan - Japan Blue. The highlight of this exhibiton was that the Japanese denim industry is working on various ways to make the entire Denim/Jeans manufacturing process as environment friendly as possible.Denim fabric manufacturer Nisshinbo is using discarded banana stocks in its fabrics .Manufacturer Nihonmenpu is producing items dyed with natural mulberry lavender.See the ...Read More

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It may be interesting to see how much Japan exports to the US and the EU. I did an analysis and here are the results.The results are not very surprising because exports to both the markets show some similar trends. The year 2004 & 2005 have been the best for exports to both EU and US. Though for exports to US , 2006 has also been the best The prices have been more or less stable over a period of time . In EU also the prices /kg have been more or less stable and so is the case in US. ...Read More

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