Carved in Blue
ISSUE 09/2023

Denim Special Edition

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

TENCEL™ Pre-Intertextile Shanghai Event © Lenzing AG

Lenzing Strengthens Customer Relations with Pre-Intertextile Shanghai Event

Each year, Lenzing Group holds a customer dinner in the key China market. The latest edition of this annual event was held ahead of the Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics show, when the industry would be in town …

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TENCEL™ Industry Voices © Lenzing AG, Sadia Rafique

Industry Voices: Consultants on the State of Denim

Along with the rest of the apparel industry, denim has recently faced some ups and downs due to economic fluctuations and changing consumer behavior. For a window into what is happening on the ground, Carved in Blue is catching up with industry figures—including executives at mills and consultants—to get their perspective …

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TENCEL™ Dod Alfaiataria and Canatiba Create Urban © Dod Alfaiataria, Canatiba Textil

Dod Alfaiataria and Canatiba Create Urban, Unisex Collection with TENCEL™

Dod Alfaiataria is mixing its skateboarding style with enhanced sustainability through a partnership with TENCEL™ and denim mill Canatiba Textil …

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TENCEL™ Blue Cast © Denis Druon, The Flax Company, Lenzing AG, Sadia Rafique

Blue Cast: Marmara Hemp’s Denis Druon on Hemp’s ‘Learning Curve’

Increasingly, the industry is cottoning on to the possibilities with hemp. And one of the companies supplying brands like Levi’s is France’s Marmara Hemp …

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TENCEL™ Natural Dyer Localized Denim © Justine Aldersey-Williams

How a Natural Dyer Localized Denim – from Linen Growing to Garment Production

Justine Aldersey-Williams recently undertook a project to localize denim production, creating linen jeans using natural indigo in the U.K. …

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