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Denim Talks
Welcome to Denim Talks, the podcast from Kingpins - the authority on the international jeans and denim market. Here we will explore all things denim, including looking into its mysterious beginning, its dirty laundry and speak to some of the people pioneering its sustainable future. Along the way, you’ll meet some of the jeans business’ key influencers in design and business as we investigate how denim has shaped fashion and business over the last 200 years...Or 500 years, depending on which version of jeans’ history you believe.
Denim Talks
Common Thread the Movie by Scott Morrison and conversation with Andrew Olah
In 2019, my friend Scott Morrison made a pilot for what he hoped would be a series of shows about jeans. YouTube indicates that 460,000 people have seen it to date, but I’ve never heard one person mention it. Plus, the few people I asked about the show all said they had never heard of it — let alone seen it.
Scott is a legend in our industry having started not one, not two but three successful brands: Paper Denim & Cloth, Earnest Sewn and 3x1 Denim. The 3x1 Soho store shuttered pre-Covid at the end of 2019, as did the brand itself. Scott left our industry and moved to golfwear — which is a bit like Tiger Woods leaving golf to be a pro tennis player.
I called Scott recently to ask if I can share his jeans pilot to our newsletter audience (at least, to those of you who are not among the 460K).
I hope you like our conversation. I miss Scott. We used to have breakfast almost every month and catch up on the industry and our personal lives, which were funny at that time. In the year of insanity 2020, he moved (I can’t believe I am writing this) to Seattle and I moved to Houston. Who would have predicted that? Never came up once in years over our bacon and eggs.
Enjoy the movie here.