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Repairing damaged goods is always better than buying anew, and Self-Edge‘s new Darn-It! studio tends to denim with an unparalleled eye for quality and authenticity. The…

Nudie Jeans isn’t about to let a good jean go to waste. The Gothenburg-based denim firm is transforming destroyed dungarees into Scandinavian-inspired rag rugs. Reclaimed from…

Have your eye on a pair of expensive designer jeans? Why pay a pretty penny when you can lease them inexpensively, instead? Dutch entrepreneur Bert van Son, who owns the Mud Jeans line…

Denim made from sustainable wood pulp, rather than cotton, could be the key to reducing the jeans industry’s sizable environmental footprint, according to a fashion student at…

LEG SAVERS Other high-performance skincare ingredients, according to Wrangler, include apricot-kernel oil, passion-fruit oil, rosehip oil, and Shea butter, as well as monoi de Tahiti, a…

The original blue-jean company is making efforts to turn its iconic garment green. On Tuesday, Levi Strauss announced the launch of “Waste<Less,” an upcoming collection…

SMART JEANS The straight-cut jean, according to Alphyn Industries, fuses traditional denim-making techniques with 21st century utility and aesthetics. Informed by military innovations,…

CHEERS TO THAT The bottles are collected, sorted, and cleaned by Earthspun, a textile company in North Carolina that shreds and melts them into liquid. After it’s extruded into…

Photo by Shutterstock Despite voluntary bans by major apparel brands, sandblasting is still widely practiced in the largely unregulated overseas denim industry, according to a new…

Target is the latest retailer to put the kibosh on sandblasting, a denim-weathering technique linked to a fatal lung condition in its operators. Following the lead of Levi’s,…

BORN IN THE U.S.A. The small-scale nature of the business allows an open environment with plenty of cross-pollination. Besides the Lytvinenkos, the team consists of five master tailors…

The denim industry is a thirsty, energy-intensive beast, but a new treatment technology by Replay Jeans could reproduce the supple, broken-in look of vintage denim without the heavy…

Cardigan, a small town of 4,000 in western Wales, once churned out 35,000 pairs of jeans every week for 30 years. That was in the days before outsourcing, of course. With the closure…

OLDIE BUT GOODIE The first pair of riveted denim jeans was patented by Levi Strauss and his partner Jacob Davis in 1872, so this ancient pair of pants isn’t far removed from the…

It may feel balmy in many parts of the world right now, but it’s only a matter of time before we break our cold-weather gear out of storage. To make sure everyone stands a…

Versace is finally putting the kibosh on sandblasting its jeans. After two months of pressure from the Clean Clothes Campaign and Change.org, the Italian fashion house has officially…

If you can’t think of a single reason to hop on two wheels (salvation for the environment, your wallet, and cankles notwithstanding, of course), Levi’s new…

Photos by Chris Webb Tired of monkeying around with the same old dungarees? Monkee Genes has more denim options than you can shake a banana at, including a range of loose-fitting chinos…