This season’s denim trend is a double throwback to two decades in fashion history – wide leg jeans from the ’90s and bell bottoms and patchwork from the ’70s. Work the look right with our vintage trending tips!

It all started on the Fall/Winter 2014 runways and bled into the Spring/Summer 2015 trend reports – vintage denim styles are back in and in a BIG way. Seen in the collections of Gucci, Tommy Hilfiger, Alberta Ferretti and Michael Kors, wide leg jeans, bell bottoms and all manner of cutting up and sewing back together all shades of denim are sure to be seen on the street of fashion savvy cities like New York, London and Paris.

One of the biggest culprits is the revival of Los Angeles-based brand JNCO, responsible for the ultra baggy, wide leg jean styles that contributed to the rave trend of the ’90s. JNCO will be offering up a range of its signature “slouchy” styles including its signature jeans with leg openings between 20 and 23 inches wide, alongside newer styles for the denim market. Although the super wide leg jeans with openings up 50 inches wide are a thing of the past, chic out your outfit by pairing these new JNCO’s with a cute crop top or go for a slightly boxier short sleeve cotton button-down.

If you’re opting for ’70s-inspired bell-bottoms and hippy chic patchwork denim, try a sleeker look on top. Tailored top and jackets look amazing with bell bottoms, and a high waisted pair will show off your feminine curves. Remember to rock a pair of platforms or heels to keep them hems from fraying.

Although we think the patchwork double denim look is a bit much, we do think it looks awesome with two different shades of denim and a pair of killer boots. Cap off your look with a leather hat and you’ll  be ready for action!

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Keeping up on fashion’s next trend is essential for planning a lean and green wardrobe – one that maximizes each item’s wearability and longevity. At the two-day Denim by Premiere Vision trade fair held in Paris earlier this month, attending designers revealed denim’s newest direction. Moving away from distressed and destroyed detailing of endlessly scruffy past seasons, the latest styles glide towards an immaculate, tailored trouser look with studied seventies swagger – think Bianca Jagger smoldering the night away at Studio 54.

Other evolving trends emerged such as black denim, mirrored surfaces and imitating the explosion of pleated pant looks shown on recent runways – draped denim and drop crotch “jegging” styles utilizing flowy fabric mixes including the “carrot style” – named because of their shape, wide at the hips and tapered at the ankles.

Environmentally conscious consumers continue to demand the greening of their blue jeans impacting suppliers at the show, including Bossa, Kuroki, Kurabo and Denim Valley by Rojo, who exhibited fabrics made from recycled denim scraps. An eco-friendly “wine jean” range by South Korea’s Eco Yaa presented denim dipped in wine tannin, grape callus extract and sprout compounds. Apparently, the properties in wine are supposed to help prevent chafing (now you know).

Attending denim weavers and manufacturers attested to the ongoing dominance of the stretch skinny jean, revealing a backlog of fabric orders – meaning skinny jeans will remain in stores for at least the next three years. Agreeably, San Diego start-up Genomatica, announced their plans to release a green spandex by mid 2011. Genomatica have successfully converted renewable natural sugar to make BDO, an industrial plastic used to make stretch fibers like spandex historically manufactured with fossil fuels. So those organic denims will continue to cling for all for the right reasons.

Sustainability leader, Levi’s & Co report the final item in this triumvirate of denim news. Their ongoing efforts to lower Levi’s carbon footprint include an extensive Life Cycle Assessment report on a pair of 501’s, which revealed “almost 60 percent of the climate impact comes during the consumer phase. Nearly 80 percent of that is due to the energy intensive method we choose for drying.”

To encourage people to air dry rather than use the dryer, Levi’s has partnered with Myoo, a community that aim to solve environmental and social challenges by enticing participants to submit solutions to win prizes, to launch a competition to design a sustainable and effective clothing drying solution in areas where clothing lines are “banned for the sake of preserving values and prudishness.” Upload your projects before the deadline of July 31st, when the audience votes for the winner.

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