INDUSTRY-ISSUES
Growing Sustainability Trends in Swim Continue to Shift the Category
By Dorothy Crouch, Contributing Writer | May 9, 2024
California Apparel News asked swim-industry experts: From eco-friendly initiatives to body positivity, what aspects of sustainability resonate most with your customers for 2024 into 2025?
Functional Fabric Fair Boasts Largest Show to Date
Powered by Performance Days, the spring edition of Functional Fabric Fair returned to Portland, Ore., April 4–5 to showcase the latest trends and innovations in textile development for the Spring 2024/2025 seasons.
Beyza Baykan Relies on the HMS Family Stone to Create Cleaner Denim
As Beyza Baykan pursued her applied-and-computational-mathematics and international-relations studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, she planned for a career combating the negative impacts of climate change in developing countries.
TradeBeyond Seeks to Help Companies Actually Produce Less
TradeBeyond helps companies make less stuff but better and more targeted stuff. It starts with sourcing.
Cone Denim Extends Sourcing-Verification Partnership With Oritain
North Carolina denim maker Cone Denim is extending its partnership with traceability and product-testing company Oritain.
Artistic Milliners Partners With Levi’s to Bring More Organic Cotton to the Supply Chain
Levi Strauss & Co. recently announced a new partnership with Artistic Milliners, founded in 1949 and one of the world’s leading producers of denim.
Sustainability and Body Positivity Resonate With Swim Collective Buyers
Buyers descended on Huntington Beach, Calif., for Emerald’s Swim Collective, held Jan. 19–20 at The Paséa Hotel & Spa, to shop for swimwear with substance.
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Transparency Within the Textile, Apparel Industry
With sustainable messaging ubiquitous within the apparel industry, what actions can companies take to relay a true commitment to ecological responsibility?
IndigoLast Takes Its Place Alongside NYDJ’s Other Eco-Friendly Collections
NYDJ—formerly known as Not Your Daughter’s Jeans—has unveiled a new eco-friendly wash called IndigoLast that will take its place alongside the brand’s BlackLast and BlueLast eco-friendly collections.
Unifi’s Textile Takeback Program Aims to Change the Fate of Polyester
In the past, obsolete fashion was cast into the dustbin of history. But legislation working its way through Europe and slowly making its way to the U.S. will soon require that garments find their way back into a circular marketplace rather than a landfill.
Lycra Publishes Goals to Be Reached by 2030
Lycra has taken a giant leap into the stratosphere of environmentalism with the recent unveiling of its first-ever Planet Agenda Report, which outlines the company’s strategies to become a more sustainable organization by the year 2030.
Functional Fabric Fair Reveals the Shape of Things to Come in the Outdoor Sustainable Space
Nature presents us with ever-changing environments—from frosty snow to arid desert, humid jungle to storm-tossed sea—requiring clothing that can wick moisture and cool you down in one situation and retain heat in another.
Tencel and Jeanologia Define Simple Pleasures Through the Joy of Denim
For the sixth edition of their partnership on the Sustainable Denim Wardrobe, Lenzing and Jeanologia examined methods of bringing joy to clothing. The partnership brings a sustainable approach to manufacturing in the quest for more ecologically sound denim.
Peder Cho Creates His Own Utopia to Create Never-Before-Seen Pieces
Utopia is a centuries-old term for a kind of heavenly ideal, and in emerging designer Peder Cho’s perfect world there’s an endless supply of high-end handbags for him to repurpose for creative ends.
New L.A. Lifestyle Line Looks to Greener Future
Fashion and society exist in symbiotic relationship and change in tandem. Losano, a new sustainable luxury-apparel brand, has entered the market focused on a conscious consumer who puts “people and planet above all else.”
Legacy Companies HSBC and Levi’s Team Up for a Sustainable Future
Both Levi’s and HSBC have histories that go back 150 years, but that hasn’t stopped either from being pioneers in building a sustainable future.
