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  • There has been a general slackness in the denim and other apparel biz in the US since the beginning of the year . As mentioned in one of our previous reports , the fall in imports of denim apparel into US had been high – at about 6.3%  in the first two months of 2011.…

  • The denim brand from U.S – True Religion – beat the impact of cotton prices , low demand and other negative factors to achieve a cool 10.2% growth in the third quarter of 2011.  The company is not depending on the domestic US market for its growth. During the quarter, True Religion said it granted…

  • The lawmakers in the US Congress introduced a legislation in July to provide provide duty-free treatment to textile and apparel imports from the 13 least-developed countries that are not currently beneficiaries under any U.S. trade preference programme. These countries are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Laos, Maldives, Nepal, Samoa, Solomon Islands, East Timor, Tuvalu and…

  • Last year Levi’s had launched Levi’s® Water<Lessâ„¢ collection which used upto 96% less water in washing. With about 1.5 million jeans manufactured , Levi’s was targeting to save about 16 million litres of water.. For the Fall/ Winter 2011 , Levi’s will have about 12 million jeans in the Waterless collection and it hopes to…

  • 14.5oz was supposed to be normal jeans and one used to consider 15.5oz as heavy jeans. Then we heard about 18oz jeans and 21oz jeans was considered a shock …! So , how do we react to a 25oz denim jeans from Iron Heart ?? Iron Heart – denim brand from Japan – excels at…

  • ASEAN region comprises countries like Brunei, Burma(Myanmar), Cambodia , Indonesia , Laos,  Malaysia, Phillipines , Singapore and Thailand . These countries have been getting important in the denim world . Lets see what denim apparel they are exporting to US and at what prices . Here is a snapshot from our data section on the…

  •   Today we are featuring an interview with Rex Aspeling . Rex has been associated with the denim industry for a long time and though from South Africa , he has implemented a  large number of denim apparel projects worldwide.  Hi Rex. Welcome to Denimsandjeans.com. Tell us something about yourselves and your  company ? I…

  •   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…

  • Gap’s 1969: LA and Beyond fall 2011 campaign has cast real people, and will be based primarily online, with national magazines and point-of-sale media as supporting media, says the company. The new campagin will be rolling out on the brand’s Facebook page and other online destinations magazines including Glamour, GQ, InStyle, People StyleWatch and Vogue.…

  • Bread and Butter happened on July 6th – 8th    and , though belated, here  is a cool denim report from the show here. Stylesight – the leading trend agency worldwide -  have kindly shared this report with us . The report can be seen in this presentation below S/S 12 Denim Trends From Bread and…

  • China has been dominating the textile industry scene for over 2 decades. The low cost , high volume model of Chinese manufacturing did wonders for the Chinese economy as well as enabled the retailers worldwide to provide cheap clothing to their consumers year after year. It also enabled China to create huge clusters of textile…

  • An interesting article on Wall Street Journal explores how the premium denim labels cost $300 or more. For those who buy $50 jeans from Levi’s , it is at many times unpalatable to see that the jeans are priced at $300 +. The market had started moving  in a direction since early 2000’s when a …