This might sound strange, but if you were to take all the water you would be able to drink in the next 13 years, you would have the amount that it takes to make one T-shirt and a pair of jeans. Yet how many pairs of jeans and how many T-shirts must the average person own? For most, the total number is likely in double figures, which is to say: it will have taken a lot of H2O.
Inditex starts closing the loop. Zara, the biggest chain of the Spanish giant by revenue, has launched its first line Denim from Denim, of garments created from the cotton extracted from other used jeans.
The company stated that they recycled old garments to subtract cotton and reuse it to create new items. It’s the first collection of the brand using denim waste.
The Dutch fashion brand has joined forces with the Swiss chemical company Archroma on the creation of a sustainable new fall collection dubbed ‘Dyed By Nature'.
Kelly Davis has started doing something she once considered unthinkable: buying clothes at Costco.
The 31-year-old had long resisted the warehouse chain’s clothing aisle; it just felt weird buying dresses and shirts at the same place she bought groceries. Plus, she said, “It’s where my mom shops."
But eventually, a pair of Jessica Simpson jeans — light blue, distressed, with holes — for only $13 did her in.
“Costco has really stepped up its game,” said Davis, who lives near Dallas. “The clothes are actually stylish. It’s not just old mom stuff anymore.”
Verona is not just the fictional home of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The Northern Italian city now lays claim to a denim archive housing more than 15,000 pieces dating as far back as the mid-19th century.
Laundry and garment manufacturer, Elleti Group, celebrated last week the grand opening of its denim museum with a host of industry friends and partners.
Offshoring of apparel manufacturing has been a blessing for many developing countries. The readymade garments (RMG) industry, employer of 4 million workers, mostly rural women, contributes more than 80 percent to Bangladesh's export revenue. Low-cost labour has been the primary reason for western retailers to wait for months to get a shipment from offshore destinations. Once technology becomes a cheaper alternative to the least costly manufacturing labour, will apparel manufacturing complete the journey in returning home?
Refinery29 homepage takeovers, banner ads, dedicated emails and e-newsletters will promote key brands. All programme content links to a curated shop where consumers can quickly purchase their favorite apparel. Additionally, brands that are sold in the UK and Germany will be promoted across digital channels in those markets. Custom videos and editorial content will be presented by fashion influencers promoting participating brands’s apparel across Refinery29 and Lycra brand digital channels, also as an influencer-owned social media channels.
HUB 1922, the fashion division of the RUDOLF GROUP, takes the stage at the Kingpins Show in Amsterdam and presents new technologies that make it possible to move away from environmentally questionable industrial practices. HUB 1922 also announces the opening of the new company building in an ancient textile factory near Milan.
Jeanologia, global leader in technology for the textile industry, will present for the press at ITMA Shanghai their technological solutions, ranging from fabric to garment finishing, with the aim of helping Chinese textile industry to put an end to pollution and satisfy market needs, adapting to the latest regulations.
The meeting will take place next Tuesday (October 16th), from 14:00 to 15:30h, at Jeanologia’s stand: H5 B09.
Jeanologia, the Spanish company leader in development of sustainable and efficient technology, backs the textile industry in India in redefining the future of their production and contributing to the consolidation of its digital revolution.
The company drives and leads the change in India, the key being the combination of their disruptive technologies, capable of establishing a new operating model that brings the jean industry into the digital era, while reducing environmental impact and optimizing time to market.
