How do you make a more sustainable pair of jeans? A great place to start is material choice.
While denim has traditionally required cotton, mills are now creating denim fabrics that have no cotton content, leveraging low-impact wood-based materials such as TENCEL™ Lyocell and TENCEL™ Modal. The Lenzing Denim team recently partnered with denim mill Advance Denim and chemical firm Officina+39 to showcase how classic jean looks and feels can be accomplished in a zero-cotton composition.
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This article is one of a series on Rivet from Lenzing’s Carved in Blue denim blog. From conversations with the experts behind the mills that make some of the world’s most-wanted denim to the global brands bringing novel denim made with TENCEL™ Lyocell and Modal to the market, Carved in Blue shares the stories of those whose roots run deep with denim. Visit www.carvedinblue.tencel.com.
