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Founded by Sandeep Agarwal – who has been associated with denim since 1993- the website brings out the best in denim world – trends, analysis, reports on almost a daily basis for the service of the denim industry worldwide. The reports provided by Denimsandjeans.com over the last few years have been found quite useful by the industry players – designers, sourcing guys, mills, buyers etc.

  • Jeans down – Trousers Up ?

    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…

  • Sugarcane Denim – A Unique Denim Brand From Japan

    Ever heard of the famous Japanese Denim Brand – Sugarcane. ? The unique thing about these Jeans is that they are made from Sugarcane fibre mixed with cotton threads. These threads are dyed in natural dyes(mostly) and then Selvedge denims is woven over 40+ year old Shuttle looms – resulting in a very unique texture…

  • US imports of Mens/Boys jeans down 6.8% in 2007(Jan-Sept)

    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…

  • US denim fabric imports Jan-Sept 2007 remain same as 2006

    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,…

  • Craziest looking jeans

    I have seen many crazy kind of Jeans but this one beats them all..How would people look walking around in them? Found them here But frankly, I won’t be surprised if these get picked up as a fashion trend by some crazy teenagers..

  • ‘Wrangler Girl’ from VF for Indian market

    [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…

  • What makes premium denims in L.A tick?

    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…

  • Jeans dyed 48 times in Natural Indigo

    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…

  • Persimmon Juice Denim??

    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 DD +1 Jeans project

    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…

  • Grungy Denim . A new trend for 2008?

    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…

  • Daniel Hirst designed Levi’s

    As I mentioned before, the world’s most expensive artist (so he is called) – Daniel Hirst – is designing a new collection for Levi’s Warhol Factory X. Here is a visual of the same.. Seems to have lot of Crystal Work on it inspired by the ‘Jewelled Skull’ ?