Denim Special Edition
Visit Carved in Blue, a blog produced and curated by the denim team at Lenzing.
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Blue Cast: Oak & Acorn’s Miko Underwood on Moving Manufacturing & Meditation
Denim can be a dirty business, with harsh chemicals and resource-heavy processes, but sustainable champions are working to make blue jeans greener. For the first episode of Lenzing’s Solutionist podcast series with the Fashion Impact Fund, Tricia Carey spoke with one of these sustainability creators: Miko Underwood, the founder of genderless denim brand Oak & Acorn – Only for the Rebelles.
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Blue Cast: Sarah Bellos on Growing Plant-Based Indigo Accessibility
Indigo dyeing may have originated with plants, but often the blue hue used for jeans is far from natural. Sarah Bellos is on a mission to bring indigo dyeing back to its plant-based roots. Based in Tennessee, Sarah is the founder and CEO of Stony Creek Colors, a creator of natural colorant solutions.
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Blue Cast: Oceanic Global’s Lea d’Auriol on Making a Sustainable Sea Change
About 70 percent of the globe is covered by oceans, but these giant bodies of water are under stress. Plastic pollution, microfibers from laundry and overfishing are all threatening the health of the seas — and the planet at-large. In the latest episode of Blue Cast’s Solutionist podcast series with the Fashion Impact Fund, Tricia Carey spoke with Lea d’Auriol, the founder and executive director of Oceanic Global Foundation.
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Blue Cast: Warp + Weft and DL1961’s Sarah Ahmed Discusses Performance Denim
Denim has been part of Sarah Ahmed’s life from a young age. As a child, she was exposed to the business through her parents’ company Artistic Denim Mills. Today, Sarah is on the brand side as the CEO and founder of Warp + Weft and the chief creative officer of DL1961. Both New York-based labels were founded by ADM as a way to have direct-to-consumer relationships via its denim.
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Blue Cast: PoliticallyInFashion Founder Hilary Jochmans on the Intersection of Fashion & Government
Fashion is a serious economic driver, but Hilary Jochmans says it is often overlooked in the broader commerce conversation. In her earlier hometown of New York City, she pointed out that fashion is the second biggest industry. “A lot of times the notion of fashion gets lost in the economic scene. You see fashion as fun and flirty, and forget that this is a major business,” said Hilary, the president of Jochmans Consulting LLC, a boutique government affairs practice, during the most recent episode of our Blue Cast podcast. “So I wanted to see how I could marry my two interest — both professionally and personally — in fashion.”