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  • On a recent visit to Dubai, it was interesting to see that a jeans manufacturing unit has been recently set up. It felt quite strange to see a new garment unit coming up in the heart of Desert. This was the Desert Studio set up by the Denim Clothing Company of Pakistan. We decided to…

  • Sustainability in denim manufacturing started off as a fashionable statement with many brands looking to capture a niche market of eco-conscious customers. But with the continuous increase in denim production and consumption, the natural resources consumed by this industry are becoming a cause of concern for the world . And companies who realize eco sustainabililty…

  • CRAiLAR Technologies Inc. which produces and markets a natural fiber made from flax and other bast fibers, has entered into a marketing and development agreement with CONE DENIM, America’s largest and most innovative working denim mill, to begin this month. The agreement calls for CONE DENIM to market and develop the use of CRAiLAR Flax…

  • Sustainability is the capacity to maintain a certain process or state indefinitely. Sustainability has been expressed as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. With over 1800 gallons of water estimated to go into production of one jeans (from cotton growing stage) ,  sustainability…

  • This is a guest article by  Dr. Wolfgang Schrott, University of Applied Sciences Hof  on sustainable denim . Denim, especially Blue Jeans, is meanwhile the biggest article segment in the textile industry. Besides many colors and shade variations, effects and cuts, which ongoing changes with the fashion, many brands have combined from the beginning of…

  • Topshop recently announced a collection of Denim and other apparel products made from Fair Trade Cotton.  In these times of explosive cotton price increases, companies and buyers may have forgotten about the ‘Fair Trade Cotton’ , but there are retailers who are taking it up on a long term basis as a means to give…

  • CNN reports that the  Pearl river on the banks of Chinese town of Xintang  in Guangzhou- also known as the Blue Jean capital of the world – looks like this when seen from a satellite.. The river  has actually turned blue black with a large portion of denim production wastes being discarded into the river.…