International B2B magazine & news portal for the global denim industry, with a strong focus on innovation, sustainability and social responsibility.
09/10/2025
"I have seen denim come in and go out of fashion. But it never goes away because at heart it is a practical fabric, founded in workwear. The challenge is to build on that and build in sustainability. To remain an indispensable product and an honest pleasure. "
In his guest comment for Inside Denim, consultant Miles Johnson reflects on 25 years in denim and calls for a ‘hive mind’ approach to sustainability.
Fashion group Ralph Lauren has eliminated potassium permanganate in its denim and non-denim production, as announced in its 2025 Global Citizenship & Sustainability Report.
Other highlights from fiscal year 2025 include meeting at least one of the company’s sustainable material criteria in 98% of units, offering Polo denim styles made from 100% , and achieving a 34% reduction in absolute emissions from the company’s FY20 baseline.
During the year, it also launched a denim recycling programme in North America in collaboration with Cotton Incorporated’s Blue Jeans Go Green. https://insidedenim.com/News/173171?develop=true
02/10/2025
👖💥 We’ve hit 10,000 followers on LinkedIn!
A huge thank you to every reader, partner, and denim lover who’s joined the Inside Denim community.
Here’s to sharing more trends, insights, and stories with you all. 💙
10/09/2025
Textiles and garment manufacturer Interloop is investing $35.2 million in a new manufacturing facility in Egypt’s Suez Canal Economic Zone.
The 60,000 square-metre garments plant is expected to create over 1,000 direct jobs
Textiles and garment manufacturer Interloop is investing $35.2 million in a new manufacturing facility in Egypt’s ..read more
09/09/2025
The new four show-in-show format of Munich Fabric Start closed last week with a stable number of visitors compared to its January edition, which saw visitor count increase by 4%. Now housed in the MOC Bluezone, the denim-focused event, lost its industrial setting in the Zenith Hall, but gained a livelier atmosphere. “It is on the rebound and a space to watch,” Tilmann Wröbel told Inside Denim.
The new four show-in-show format of Munich Fabric Start closed last week with a stable number of visitors compared to..read more
05/09/2025
Nudie Jeans celebrated the opening of its store in Manchester - and first UK store outside London - with a lively launch event followed by and after party at Night & Day Cafe next door - great music, great people, great jeans! 🙌🏼
.who.smoke
04/09/2025
Chinese denim mill Advance Denim has announced that it has successfully achieved Cradle-to-Cradle Gold Standard 4.1 in material health. This, it said, “is the most ambitious and actionable standard yet for developing denim that is safe, circular and responsibly made”.
The products that have received the certification include denims made from 100% regenerative or organic cotton, as well as blends containing 94 to 99% cotton with 1 to 6% stretch fibres. The certified fabrics are dyed indigo or sulfur, or are delivered in RFD (Ready for Dye) form. Some fifty references have been approved by Cradle to Cradle.
Thanks to Salli Deighton and the team at LaundRE for inviting Inside Denim for an early viewing of the new facility! The set-up looked fantastic and the enthusiasm was contagious!
From the walls and cupboards built using the machinery’s boxes, to the repurposed floor tiles and the shiny new machinery, everything has been carefully thought through to offer a facility that will lead to less waste, better-educated students, more flexible buying for retailers, greater reshoring and a place to refinish or upcycle the country’s denim waste.
Head to Inside Denim, in the Features section, to read the full story on the machinery, set-up, plans and potential!
Thanks to
Salli Deighton
Rowan Hunt
Joanna Senez
Idrish Munshi
25/04/2025
In case you missed it, here's some of what happened in the last week:
🧵
Sustainability efforts help Cone Denim parent group to ‘push new boundaries’
insidedenim.com/News/171659
Cone Denim
👖
ARMEDANGELS ushers in SaXcell
insidedenim.com/News/171615
ARMEDANGELS SaXcell
👖
Youthful vision leads to creative interpretations of stretch
insidedenim.com/News/171625
The Kingpins Show
👖
EU circular fashion sector could weigh €31.3 billion by 2030
insidedenim.com/News/171646
KPMG
👖
Isko Luxury by PG: Seven stories to spark inspiration
Another busy - soft fabrics, new tints and blends, lower impact chemicals, revamped spinning techniques and biobased alternatives
07/03/2025
In case you missed it, here's some of what happened in the last week:
🧵
Biomaterial maker tests natural indigo
insidedenim.com/News/171179
👖
Tonello completes garment finishing offering with first dryers
insidedenim.com/News/171204
srl
👖
Schnaider thinks ‘inside the box’
insidedenim.com/News/171158
👖
White Weft to lead London workshops as it embarks on 'biggest challenge'
insidedenim.com/News/171172
👖
Recyclers unite to push textile-to-textile at EC level
insidedenim.com/News/171195
® Circulose RE&UP Recycling Technologies
28/02/2025
In case you missed it, here's some of what happened in the last week:
👖
Unifi ups textile-to-textile recycling
insidedenim.com/News/171129
Manufacturing, Inc. (makers of Repreve® )
👖
C&A ceases production at FIT factory
insidedenim.com/News/171104
👖
Blanche denim range features Isko fabrics
insidedenim.com/News/171102
™
👖
Kontoor reports flat growth
insidedenim.com/News/171116
Brands, Inc.
Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Inside Denim posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
Inside Denim offers a unique insight into the global supply chain with a strong focus on innovation, sustainability and social responsibility.
It keeps the denim community up to date with developments from raw material to finished product and provides in-depth coverage of advances at fibre and fabric level.
It also offers the perspective of mills in all parts of the denim making world, adding to the insight brands rely on when making sourcing decisions.
Published three times annually, it is essential reading for manufacturers, traders, brands and the wider industry.
InsideDenim.com is the news portal to complement Inside Denim magazine, offering the latest industry news, market intelligence, product information and much more. It is a comprehensive news site for the industry, boasting a searchable archive of stories, as well as emailed newsletters and a technical online library of Inside Denim articles.
Inside Denim is brought to you by World Trades Publishing (WTP); an established business-to-business publisher for global industries with an impressive portfolio of international trade publications, including World Leather, World Footwear and WSA (World Sports Activewear).
Follow our pages (you will find us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), and visit our website to learn more and immerse yourself in the global denim industry.
For more information on the global leather, performance textiles and footwear industries, please visit:
