TEXTILES
CMC Hosts LA Textile Show as Creatives Seek Sustainable Domestic Options
By Dorothy Crouch, Contributing Writer | December 1, 2025
Designers and fashion creatives traveled to downtown Los Angeles Oct. 7–9 for the LA Textile Show at the California Market Center.
TEXTILE TRENDS
Electric Avenue
Fuchsia can be a polarizing color if only because no one can ever remember how to spell it. But these electric fuchsias beckon to be tried by all due to their ability to inject electric energy into whatever you’re wearing. It’s all but guaranteed to shock your mood back to the positive spectrum should it dip.
Frozen in Amber
Amber has the ability to fossilize ancient life forms (remember “Jurassic Park”?), and in the coming seasons you’ll see it crystallize fashion as well. These warm honey shades speak of positivity and remind us that amber has been used for millennia in oils, perfumes and incense to raise our spirits.
Celestial Aura
Blue is the color of heaven, whether on a sunlit day or in the dark indigo of night. As a result, it’s always a soothing color capable of conveying stability, as in a navy blazer, or more-dynamic feelings. These blues are as happy as a perennial summer sky but are often adorned with modern motifs.
NEWS
Obituary: Jack Berger, Textile Converter, 94
Jack Berger, the cofounder of The Print Works, a swimwear textile converting company, passed away on Dec. 16, 2017, of cancer. He was 94.
Hyosung Names New Marketing Director, New U.S-Based Executives
New execs at Hyosung in U.S. offices.
Artistic Milliners Introduces Sustainable Indigo Dye Process
A dirty secret of the denim business is the amount of water, chemicals and energy it takes to get that classic indigo blue. Pakistan denim mill Artistic Milliners hopes to change that with Crystal Clear, a newly introduced process that the company is calling “the cleanest indigo dyeing process.”
Cone, Lenzing and Unifi Partner for Future Black + Denim With Recycled Materials
Fiber makers Lenzing and Unifi have teamed up with fabric mill Cone Denim to introduce Future Black+, a denim made with Unifi’s recycled Repreve fibers andLenzing Modal.
Denim Production in the United States Hit With Another Blow
One of the last mills in the United States to make denim fabric has decided to shutter its denim production and concentrate on technical fabrics.
Creora and Bossa Team Up for Xplay
Korean fiber and yarn company Hyosung Corp. and Turkish denim mill Bossa are introducing a new collection of bi-stretch denim at the Nov. 14–15 run of Denim Première Vision in Paris.
Artisan Cloth’s New L.A. HQ Showcases International mix of Premium Denim
Brad Alden Mowry and Danielle Lee are putting the finishing touches on the new 2,600-square-foot showroom space in downtown Los Angeles for their denim textile company, Artisan Cloth.
Goldschmied Introduces Denim Capsule Made with Lenzing Refibra
At the Oct. 25–26 run of Kingpins Amsterdam, denim designer Adriano Goldschmied introduced a denim capsule collection made with Refibra, a newly launched fiber developed by Lenzing AG, the makers of Tencel.
Textile Trends
Designers head to the dark side to create dramatic laces, denims, fancies and novelty knits in rich shades of black.
Eastman’s Newest Cellulosic Blends Sustainability and Comfort in an Easy-Care Fiber
Kingsport, Tenn.–based Eastman has been making cellulosic fiber for decades, but its newest product tweaks the formula to offer a sustainable fiber with easy-care attributes.
ITG Closing Cone’s White Oak Denim Mill
After 112 years in operation, Cone Denim’s White Oak mill in Greensboro, N.C., will close at the end of the year.
