Carved in Blue
ISSUE 02/2022

Denim Special Edition

Visit Carved in Blue, a blog produced and curated by the denim team at Lenzing.

TENCEL™ REFIBRA™ © Lenzing AG

REFIBRA™ Marks 5-Year Anniversary on the Market

Five years ago this week, Lenzing officially launched our TENCEL™ lyocell with REFIBRA™ technology fibers. REFIBRA™ became the FIRST commercially available cellulosic fiber with recycled content, changing the game for circularity.

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TENCEL™ Blue Cast © Sadia Rafique

Blue Cast: Joanne Schouten on Denim Days’ ‘Big, Blue, Bubbly’ Return

On the most recent episode of our Blue Cast podcast, Tricia Carey was joined by Joanne Schouten, an independent creative project manager who has worked on some of the denim industry’s must-attend events such as Kingpins Show and the Denim Days Festival. After attending fashion school, her earlier work included producing fashion shows. However, her career turned to denim around 2014 with events such as the Global Denim Awards…

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TENCEL™ Denim Head Threads © Sadia Rafique

Denim Head Threads: Inside the Closet of Cone Denim’s Pierette Scavuzzo

Individuals in the denim industry are focused on making goods that wind up in other people’s wardrobes, but how do they curate their own closets…Pierette Scavuzzo is the New York-based design director of Cone Denim, which supplies denim textiles to brands like Levi’s and Lee. Read on to see Pierette’s style philosophy on color and fit.

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TENCEL™ Women Sustainability Leaders © Sadia Rafique

Podcast Series Spotlights Women Sustainability Leaders

This Women’s History Month, the focus is on “Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.” This theme intends to explore the healing and caring contributions of women in years past, as well as the frontline medical workers in the present.

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TENCEL™ Santaderina © Textile Santanderina

Santanderina’s S360 Gives Textile Waste New Life

To achieve a more sustainable fashion industry, one of the top items to tackle is waste. Production and consumption have grown in recent years, creating a speedier cycle from creation to disposal. With more manufacturing also comes more cutting scraps that often get tossed. In order to get out of this cycle of take, make, waste, companies have started to embrace circularity…

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