BLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®

BLUE CAST Ep10 - 

 This BLUE CAST Episode, Michael Kininmonth talks with Sally Deighton - Denim and Production Specialist based in the UK 

Salli Deighton, Industry veteran started her career with Wrangler jeans back in the early 90s. Her induction was in the plant in Falkirk run by a legend called Raymond Brown who was adamant no one should be designing jeans until they knew how to make them! 

Salli time at Wrangler, based in Calverton, a pit village in Nottingham. She worked on denim jackets, shirts and the tops line at Wrangler until the mid 90s developing products mainly in Turkey and Portugal. Shes worked for Lee and Easy jeans before having twin girls in 2000 and 9 months into motherhood she realised she needed a work / baby balance. 

 “When you love what you do for a living it has to be part of your life. Fortunately I had a call asking for a couple of tech packs and my freelance life began.”

Over the last 20 years, Salli has worked with some great companies and teams constantly learning and evolving her work.  She was hired by Arvind Mills in 2003 as they started Wrangler in India though a joint venture with VF where for the next 8 years she directed and supported the Indian teams. Shes developed the denim offer for many companies including Fat Face, F&F, Gas, Debenhams, ASOS and broke all sales records at M&S with the new women’s line .

Since 2006, Salli has spent a lot of time in Bangladesh, China, Turkey and key denim producing countries. Salli is currently consulting with Naveena Denim LTD NDL ensuring their collections are laundry friendly in every aspect and biodegradability and reuse is considered. It’s the first time Salli’s worked with a mill at this level. 

Her aim now is to close the loop by bringing denim finishing back to the UK. with an open, transparent hub processing smaller quantities of jeans close to home, re processing unsold stock and enabling us to clean and breathe new life into jeans which are heading for landfill. Providing such a resource for UK retail and enabling the next generation of talented denim developers to find new and better ways make jeans is the next, natural step as we transition to a better industry. 

https://www.instagram.com/SalliDenim/
https://www.instagram.com/Laundre_UK


Michael Kininmonth has spent the whole of his 45 years working life in textiles. He trained at University of Bolton in the UK. He has had a wide and varied career spanning fiber spinning through to garment production, woven and knits through to non-woven composites, apparel fabrics through to medical textiles. He joined the then only UK-based denim mill, Smith & Nephew, back in 1974. He is widely travelled and is the holder of several textile patents. He joined Courtaulds just after the launch of TENCEL, and still has the scars to prove it. He is now employed by Lenzing Fibers as Business Development Manager. His currently responsibilities are split between sustainability and denim projects. Michael lives in Nottingham in the UK along with his wife Julia, 2 children Alex and Olivia and the dog Eddy. 

BLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®

A podcast series created by Michael Kininmonth and Tricia Carey from Lenzing’s TENCEL™ Denim team. Each month, they will host an in-depth talk with a special guest working in the industry or on the fringes of the denim community. Listen for discussions on sustainability, career trajectories, personal denim memories and more.

Graphics, recording and editing by Mohsin Sajid and Sadia Rafique from ENDRIME® for TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®.

Find us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @carvedinblue. And get in touch [email protected]

https://carvedinblue.tencel.com/

https://www.youtube.com/c/bluelenz

https://bluecast.buzzsprout.comh

BLUE CAST Ep9 - WASTE NOT WANT NOT - MAKING SENSE OF THE TEXTILE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

This BLUE CAST Episode, Tricia Carey talks with Karla Magruder, from ACCELERATING CIRCULARITY


Karla Magruder, a textile industry veteran with more than 35 years global experience from fiber to finished garments. Her experience, contact list and helicopter view to make sense of a highly complex situation that faces our industry. Having founded Accelerating Circularity in 2019 and Fabrikology International in 2003, Karla Magruder is as qualified as anyone to tackle this enormous task that is Circularity. 

https://www.acceleratingcircularity.org/


Tricia Carey is a well-known advocate for innovation and sustainability in the textile and apparel industry. Twenty years ago, Tricia joined Courtalds Fibers NY to develop the marketing plan for a brand new fiber called TENCEL. When Lenzing Fibers acquired Tencel Inc. in 2004, Tricia became the USA Merchandising Manager for Womenswear, Menswear, and Intimates. Today, Tricia directs the Global Denim Segment, as well as the Americas Business Development teams, with a special interest in advancing more sustainable apparel development from fiber to consumer use. 

Tricia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Merchandising from The Fashion Institute of Technology and certificates in Digital Marketing and Strategy from Cornell University and MIT. Her experience in fabric sales, global sourcing, and apparel business development make her an invaluable partner for brands and retailers who want to re-evaluate their supply chains and optimize the application and benefits of Lenzing’s botanic fibers. 

Tricia also serves as Secretary of Accelerating Circularity Project, is a member of the FIT Textile Department Advisory Board and was Vice Chair at Textile Exchange from 2014-2018.  In 2020 she was nominated as B2B Content Marketer of the Year by Content Marketing Institute, as well as top 100 Denim Legend by WeAr Magazine.  In 2019 Tricia was awarded the RIVET 50, influential denim industry leaders.  She has been a speaker as various industry events including United Nations, Transformers, Texworld, Premiere Vision, Wear Conference, and more. She is based in New York City and can be reached through LinkedIn.


BLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®

A podcast series created by Michael Kininmonth and Tricia Carey from Lenzing’s TENCEL™ Denim team. Each month, they will host an in-depth talk with a special guest working in the industry or on the fringes of the denim community. Listen for discussions on sustainability, career trajectories, personal denim memories and more.

Graphics, recording and editing by Mohsin Sajid and Sadia Rafique from ENDRIME® for TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®.

Find us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @carvedinblue. And get in touch [email protected]

https://carvedinblue.tencel.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/bluelenz
https://bluecast.buzzsprout.com

BLUE CAST Ep8 - A TRUE BLUE AMERICAN

This BLUE CAST Episode, Tricia Carey talks with Tom Leonard 


Tom Leonard, was Senior VP of global sales Cone Denim, who officially “checked out” a week earlier, ( this recording was from  July 7th 2021) Tom is a political science major at Lynchburg College, spent more than 40 years in the denim industry at Avondale and Cone Denim. 

After a brief stint in the golf industry he started with Cone Denim in February of ‘81. Transferred to Chicago where I became mid-west regional sales manager in ‘83. Joined Avondale in ‘87 where he served in various sales roles until ‘99 when I rejoined Cone in various management rolls in Greensboro but primarily in Kansas City. 

Tom has recently retired.



Tricia Carey is a well-known advocate for innovation and sustainability in the textile and apparel industry. Twenty years ago, Tricia joined Courtalds Fibers NY to develop the marketing plan for a brand new fiber called TENCEL. When Lenzing Fibers acquired Tencel Inc. in 2004, Tricia became the USA Merchandising Manager for Womenswear, Menswear, and Intimates. Today, Tricia directs the Global Denim Segment, as well as the Americas Business Development teams, with a special interest in advancing more sustainable apparel development from fiber to consumer use. 

Tricia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Merchandising from The Fashion Institute of Technology and certificates in Digital Marketing and Strategy from Cornell University and MIT. Her experience in fabric sales, global sourcing, and apparel business development make her an invaluable partner for brands and retailers who want to re-evaluate their supply chains and optimize the application and benefits of Lenzing’s botanic fibers. 

Tricia also serves as Secretary of Accelerating Circularity Project, is a member of the FIT Textile Department Advisory Board and was Vice Chair at Textile Exchange from 2014-2018.  In 2020 she was nominated as B2B Content Marketer of the Year by Content Marketing Institute, as well as top 100 Denim Legend by WeAr Magazine.  In 2019 Tricia was awarded the RIVET 50, influential denim industry leaders.  She has been a speaker as various industry events including United Nations, Transformers, Texworld, Premiere Vision, Wear Conference, and more. She is based in New York City and can be reached through LinkedIn.


BLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®

A podcast series created by Michael Kininmonth and Tricia Carey from Lenzing’s TENCEL™ Denim team. Each month, they will host an in-depth talk with a special guest working in the industry or on the fringes of the denim community. Listen for discussions on sustainability, career trajectories, personal denim memories and more.

Graphics, recording and editing by Mohsin Sajid and Sadia Rafique from ENDRIME® for TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®.

Find us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @carvedinblue. And get in touch [email protected]

https://carvedinblue.tencel.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/bluelenz
https://bluecast.buzzsprout.com

BLUE CAST Ep7 - Marzia + Michael

‘A Change Agent for the Denim Industry’

This BLUE CAST Episode, Michael Kininmonth talks with Marzia Lanfranchi

Marzia Lanfranchi is a independent Sustainable Fashion Consultant; the Founder of Cotton Diaries, a global community committed to making cotton supply chains more sustainable; and the Intelligence Director at Transformers Foundation. Her mission is to shape a healthier fashion system by breaking companies’ silos and building bridges across supply chain segments.She's worked in various roles, ranging from fabric development at Burberry, responsible sourcing & social compliance at UK retailer FatFace, to retail and marketing to even farming! (cotton) for companies internationally. She has gained understanding of the industry’s dynamics and how supply chains operate. She's well-versed in the key sustainability challenges facing the textile industry today and works one-on-one with clients to overcome them. She's Italian-born but internationally raised. Lived in 4 different countries and worked across the globe. A multilingual, out-of-the-box thinker who is highly dynamic and versatile. She strives for bringing fresh new perspectives into the room.


Michael Kininmonth has spent the whole of his 45 years working life in textiles. He trained at University of Bolton in the UK. He has had a wide and varied career spanning fiber spinning through to garment production, woven and knits through to non-woven composites, apparel fabrics through to medical textiles. He joined the then only UK-based denim mill, Smith & Nephew, back in 1974. He is widely travelled and is the holder of several textile patents. He joined Courtaulds just after the launch of TENCEL, and still has the scars to prove it. He is now employed by Lenzing Fibers as Business Development Manager. His currently responsibilities are split between sustainability and denim projects. Michael lives in Nottingham in the UK along with his wife Julia, 2 children Alex and Olivia and the dog Eddy. 

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BLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®

A pod cast series created by Michael Kininmonth and Tricia Carey from Lenzing. Each month they each will host Podcast with a special guest and in-depth talks in the fringes of the Denim Community.

Graphics, recording and editing by Mohsin Sajid and Sadia Rafique from ENDRIME® for TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®.

https://carvedinblue.tencel.com/ 
https://www.youtube.com/c/bluelenz
https://bluecast.buzzsprout.com

BLUE CAST Ep6 - Scott + Tricia

Blue Blood on the Green

This BLUE CAST Episode, Tricia Carey talks with Designer Scott Morrison

Designer Scott Morrison was born and raised in Palm Springs, California, and attended the University of Washington, Seattle, on an athletic scholarship for golf.  A professional in the sport by age 23, he developed an interest in the clothing industry while in college, and soon accepted a position with local clothing designer, Derek Andrew.
Two years later, in 1998, Scott was hired to oversee the sales and marketing of a new denim division of Mudd Jeans, based in New York City.  

Scott chose to remain in the city and subsequently founded ‘Paper Denim & Cloth’ in 1999.
Scott’s reputation in the industry grew over the next four years at Paper Denim.  

After almost five years of developing, designing, and managing one of the first American success stories in the ‘Premium Denim’ market, Morrison left Paper Denim to launch a new denim brand called ‘Earnest Sewn’ and clothing line known as ‘An Earnest Cut & Sew’ in 2004.  Both reflected his passion for quality, the Japanese aesthetic principle of wabi-sabi (i.e. beauty in imperfection), and his love of American heritage.

Earnest Sewn became a modern day testament to quality, tradition, and the ever-present influence of denim in a continually evolving world culture.  Scott continued to develop his love of architecture and interior design during those years, designing all three of the Earnest Sewn stores, and the Milk Bar at Milk Studios in New York City.  

Morrison chose to move on from the brand in 2009, and briefly helped with the rebranding and repositioning of Japanese cult denim label, ‘Evisu’ from 2009 to 2010.

In February 2011,  Morrison took what may be his most personal vision, and launched ‘3×1’.  The name “3×1” is derived from denim’s standard weaving construction, the ‘3×1 Right Hand Twill’, and also references Morrison’s third venture, following Paper Denim and Earnest Sewn.  As a label, 3×1 is defined by its transparency, quality, and uniqueness with a location at 15 Mercer Street housing a 4,000 sq.ft. retail and gallery space, an entire manufacturing facility as well as their 3,200 sq.ft. design studio.

In 2020 Scoot sold 3x1, and moved back to California with his family to return to his 1st love Golf and start a company called Radmor with his college roommate Bob Conrad. 

Radmor is the first brand in the golf industry to focus on the elimination of using ‘virgin’ polyester on a garment level. and using Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) Organic and Extra-Long Staple (ELS) Pima cotton apparel while incorporating more environmentally responsible performance technologies, and thereby reducing our impact on the environment.

Tricia Carey is a well-known advocate for innovation and sustainability in the textile and apparel industry. Twenty years ago, Tricia joined Courtalds Fibers NY to develop the marketing plan for a brand new fiber called TENCEL. When Lenzing Fibers acquired Tencel Inc. in 2004, Tricia became the USA Merchandising Manager for Womenswear, Menswear, and Intimates. Today, Tricia directs the Global Denim Segment, as well as the Americas Business Development teams, with a special interest in advancing more sustainable apparel development from fiber to consumer use. 

Tricia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Merchandising from The Fashion Institute of Technology and certificates in Digital Marketing and Strategy from Cornell University and MIT. Her experience in fabric sales, global sourcing, and apparel business development make her an invaluable partner for brands and retailers who want to re-evaluate their supply chains and optimize the application and benefits of Lenzing’s botanic fibers. 

Tricia also serves as Secretary of Accelerating Circularity Project, is a membe

BLUE CAST Ep5 - Megan + Tricia
From Surfings Throne to Outerknown


This BLUE CAST Episode, Tricia Carey talks with Megan Stoneburner, Director of Sustainability and Sourcing at Outerknown. 


Megan Stoneburner currently leads Sustainability and Sourcing at Outerknown. She has more than 10 years of experience in product development and strategy, working in Sustainable Innovation, Inventory Management, and Production and Sourcing of apparel and home goods, with the majority of her career working at Gap Inc.



Tricia Carey is a well-known advocate for innovation and sustainability in the textile and apparel industry. Twenty years ago, Tricia joined Courtalds Fibers NY to develop the marketing plan for a brand new fiber called TENCEL. When Lenzing Fibers acquired Tencel Inc. in 2004, Tricia became the USA Merchandising Manager for Womenswear, Menswear, and Intimates. Today, Tricia directs the Global Denim Segment, as well as the Americas Business Development teams, with a special interest in advancing more sustainable apparel development from fiber to consumer use. 

Tricia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Merchandising from The Fashion Institute of Technology and certificates in Digital Marketing and Strategy from Cornell University and MIT. Her experience in fabric sales, global sourcing, and apparel business development make her an invaluable partner for brands and retailers who want to re-evaluate their supply chains and optimize the application and benefits of Lenzing’s botanic fibers. 

Tricia also serves as Secretary of Accelerating Circularity Project, is a member of the FIT Textile Department Advisory Board and was Vice Chair at Textile Exchange from 2014-2018.  In 2020 she was nominated as B2B Content Marketer of the Year by Content Marketing Institute, as well as top 100 Denim Legend by WeAr Magazine.  In 2019 Tricia was awarded the RIVET 50, influential denim industry leaders.  She has been a speaker as various industry events including United Nations, Transformers, Texworld, Premiere Vision, Wear Conference, and more. She is based in New York City and can be reached through LinkedIn.


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BLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®

A pod cast series created by Michael Kininmonth and Tricia Carey from Lenzing. Each month they each will host Podcast with a special guest and in-depth talks in the fringes of the Denim Community.

Graphics, recording and editing by Mohsin Sajid and Sadia Rafique from ENDRIME® for TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®.

https://carvedinblue.tencel.com/ 
https://www.youtube.com/c/bluelenz
https://bluecast.buzzsprout.com

BLUE CAST Ep4 - Panos + Michael

THE MODERN DAY DENIM EVERYMAN 


This BLUE CAST Episode, Michael Kininmonth talks with Panos Sofianos, Sustainable Denim Strategist - Denim Innovation Curator at BLUEZONE SHOW

In this episode we speak to Panos Sofianos, who currently is the Munich Fabric Start Bluezone denim and innovation curator, fostering collaboration between legacy denim mills and tech start-ups. In his 4-decade long career, his experience has spanned iconic fabric mills and iconic brands rubbing shoulders with many of the industry’s influential figures.


Michael Kininmonth has spent the whole of his 45 years working life in textiles. He trained at University of Bolton in the UK. He has had a wide and varied career spanning fiber spinning through to garment production, woven and knits through to non-woven composites, apparel fabrics through to medical textiles. He joined the then only UK-based denim mill, Smith & Nephew, back in 1974. He is widely travelled and is the holder of several textile patents. He joined Courtaulds just after the launch of TENCEL, and still has the scars to prove it. He is now employed by Lenzing Fibers as Business Development Manager. His currently responsibilities are split between sustainability and denim projects. Michael lives in Nottingham in the UK along with his wife Julia, 2 children Alex and Olivia and the dog Eddy. 

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BLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®

A pod cast series created by Michael Kininmonth and Tricia Carey from Lenzing. Each month they each will host Podcast with a special guest and in-depth talks in the fringes of the Denim Community.

Graphics, recording and editing by Mohsin Sajid and Sadia Rafique from ENDRIME® for TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®.

https://carvedinblue.tencel.com/ 
https://www.youtube.com/c/bluelenz
https://bluecast.buzzsprout.com

BLUE CAST Ep3 - Tracey + Michael

THE ROOTS OF THE DENIM INDUSTRY THROUGH THE EYES OF THE LEVI STRAUSS ARCHIVE

This BLUE CAST Episode, Michael Kininmonth talks Historian at Levi Strauss & Co. Tracey Panek. 

In this episode, we speak with someone who has a job that most of us could only dream of: Tracey Panek, Levi Strauss & Co.’s historian. Listen to Tracey share how one of the best parts of the job are the myriad stories she discovers and hears daily and that she reveals from an old pair of jeans.

Tracey Panek is the Historian for Levi Strauss & Co. Joining the company in June 2014, she manages the day-to-day workings of the Levi Strauss & Co. Archives as a key corporate asset, answering historical questions, assisting designers, brand managers, executives and other employees whose work requires historical materials in the Archives.
 
Prior to joining LS&Co., Tracey spent 14 years as Historian and Archivist at AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah where she managed a corporate history program for the 100+ year old company. She began her corporate history career at AirTouch Communications—today Verizon and Vodafone—a San Francisco based company that launched cellular service at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.


Michael Kininmonth has spent the whole of his 45 years working life in textiles. He trained at University of Bolton in the UK. He has had a wide and varied career spanning fiber spinning through to garment production, woven and knits through to non-woven composites, apparel fabrics through to medical textiles. He joined the then only UK-based denim mill, Smith & Nephew, back in 1974. He is widely travelled and is the holder of several textile patents. He joined Courtaulds just after the launch of TENCEL™, and still has the scars to prove it. He is now employed by Lenzing Fibers as Business Development Manager. His currently responsibilities are split between sustainability and denim projects. Michael lives in Nottingham in the UK along with his wife Julia, 2 children Alex and Olivia and the dog Eddy. 

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BLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®

A pod cast series created by Michael Kininmonth and Tricia Carey from Lenzing. Each month they each will host Podcast with a special guest and in-depth talks in the fringes of the Denim Community.

Graphics, recording and editing by Mohsin Sajid and Sadia Rafique from ENDRIME® for TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®.

https://carvedinblue.tencel.com/ 
https://www.youtube.com/c/bluelenz
https://bluecast.buzzsprout.com

BLUE CAST Ep2 - Roger + Michael

THE DARK SIDE OF THE DENIM INDUSTRY

This BLUE CAST Episode, Michael Kininmonth talks with award winning Director/Producer Roger Williams. 


Roger Williams, a veteran Canadian filmmaker, took his camera to some the most wretched and despoiled areas of the global denim manufacturing industry. —China, Bangladesh, India and Indonesia. Williams, was the film’s executive producer, director and cinematographer. Listen to the backstory about why one environmental activist claims that “We are committing hydrocide. We are deliberately murdering our rivers”.


Michael Kininmonth has spent the whole of his 45 years working life in textiles. He trained at University of Bolton in the UK. He has had a wide and varied career spanning fiber spinning through to garment production, woven and knits through to non-woven composites, apparel fabrics through to medical textiles. He joined the then only UK-based denim mill, Smith & Nephew, back in 1974. He is widely travelled and is the holder of several textile patents. He joined Courtaulds just after the launch of TENCEL™, and still has the scars to prove it. He is now employed by Lenzing Fibers as Business Development Manager. His currently responsibilities are split between sustainability and denim projects. Michael lives in Nottingham in the UK along with his wife Julia, 2 children Alex and Olivia and the dog Eddy. 

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BLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®

A pod cast series created by Michael Kininmonth and Tricia Carey from Lenzing. Each month they each will host Podcast with a special guest and in-depth talks in the fringes of the Denim Community.

Graphics, recording and editing by Mohsin Sajid and Sadia Rafique from ENDRIME® for TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®.

https://carvedinblue.tencel.com/ 
https://www.youtube.com/c/bluelenz
https://bluecast.buzzsprout.com

BLUE CAST Ep1 - Tricia + Michael

THE BIRTH OF BLUECAST 

Tricia Carey and Michael Kininmonth from the TENCEL™ Denim team kick off the first episode of Blue Cast by sharing the stories behind the how TENCEL has made its mark in the denim industry and why the Carved in Blue blog has taken on a life of its own spawning both Blue Lenz and now Blue Cast.

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BLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®

A pod cast series created by Michael Kininmonth and Tricia Carey from Lenzing. Each month they each will host Podcast with a special guest and in-depth talks in the fringes of the Denim Community.

Graphics, recording and editing by Mohsin Sajid and Sadia Rafique from ENDRIME® for TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®.

https://carvedinblue.tencel.com/ 
https://www.youtube.com/c/bluelenz
https://bluecast.buzzsprout.com