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  • The first edition of the ‘Denim by Premier Vision‘ will be taking place at Paris St-Denim.Around 40 companies from over 11 countries all over the world shall be represented here. It will be a unique ‘Fashion -Textiles’ meet with denim producers, washing launderies,fashion accessories represented here. The setting of the event is also expected to…

  • Further to my previous post on the fall in imports of Men’s and Boys Jeans in US, there is further news coming about the fall in sales of Men’s Jeans. As per NPD (in New York times), the sale of men’s Jeans has fallen by 1% for the year ending in August 2007 – and…

  • The imports of Mens/Boys Jeans into US seems to have slowed down since the second quarter of this year. The total imports under this category is down by 6.8% .. This fall is significant in view of the boom that Denim was going through.. US Import figures for M/B Jeans in 2007 New Page 1…

  • It is very interesting to see the figures of imports of DENIM FABRICS into the US. As we all know, US has seen the boom in Premium Denim labels market in the 3 -4 years. As a result the main manufacturing of Jeans in the US is for these labels only. For price concious buyers,…

  • [ad#for-post-top] Wrangler(VF Corp) India is launching a new sub-brand ‘Wrangler Girl’ .This brand shall be specificially targetted at young women. Wrangler has mainly been a male focused brand, though internationally they also have a brand for middle aged women – ‘Wrangler Aura’. Why did Wrangler feel the need to bring out this brand in India…

  • Often people wonder why of all the places Los Angeles became the Premium Denim capital of the world. How did the process of globalisation reverse in case of premium denims where the production sent overseas came back to US ? L.A had a very developed denim production and large scale productions were done for companies…

  • Can you believe that Denim can be dyed 48 TIMES ?? Well, seeing is believing. Here are some snaps from Kappa Jeans which claims to dye their Denims 48 times in NATURAL INDIGO..See here and here But whatever may be the actual number of dips in Indigo, the Denim is Really Cool.. Related Posts: Natural…

  • Ever hear of Persimmon Juice Denim ? Persimmon – tanin dyeing is a Japanese dyeing and is called Kaki – Shibu Dyeing. Persimmon is an extremely bitter kind of fruit and its juice is full of dark brown tanin which is used in place of Indigo for dyeing the cotton. When the denim is dyed…

  • Evisu has launched a new Denim Project called Dirty Dozen + 1 (DD+1) in association with Superfuture and the Blue in Green store in NY . 13 people are wearing a pair each of special customized jeans from Evisu – hand painted by a famous Japanese artist. The jeans shall be worn for a period…

  • There have been some forecasts that a new trend for Spring/Summer 2008 may be the GRUNGY DENIM..…. These Jeans basically have a patchy high contrast bleached look – the 80s punk look. Though this washing style has not been noticed in many brands, there are some points that merit attention: a)The current trends in denim…

  • Denim for fall 2007 is going to be a story of two extreme styles – Skinny and Wide Legged . Skinny jeans has been in for quite some time with various celebrities including Kate Moss endorsing the same. Now Kate Moss , Lindsay Lohan, Naomi Campbell, Angela Basset and others have been seen in Wide…

  • We all know about the importance of fit in the buying decision of a premium denim. It is estimated in various polls that fit contributed almost 85% to a buying decision related to Premium Denim. I think then its in place to know which brand – out of so many out there – provides the…