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.
Episodes
15 episodes
Andrew Olah and Salli Deighton
Salli Deighton got her start at Wrangler and Lee and went on to build a career working in denim design and product development for some of the largest retailers and brands. The latest project for the U.K. native is close to home — q...
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26:46
Andrew Olah and Paolo Leidi Get Technical About Denim
Kingpins Founder Andrew Olah recently caught up with textile engineer Paolo Leidi to talk about the state of denim manufacturing and what they see on the horizon. Paolo Leidi is the Denim, Corduroy and Apparel fabrics Engineer at ITE. <...
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Fashion, Feminism & the Future
Ayesha Barenblat, founder & CEO of Remake, shares how the Instagram generation is galvanizing social change IRL. Remake is founded on the idea of ‘radical disruption.’ The organization leverages everything from soc...
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Sanjeev Bahl, founder and CEO of Saitex, talks happiness, disruption and the limitations of the current sustainability conversations.
Sanjeev Bahl is tired of talking about sustainability.As the founder and CEO of Saitex, a fully vertical textile company that spins and weaves denim from yarns they have dyed with sewing factories in Ho Chi Minh City and Los Angeles, he ...
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32:38
Jerome Dahan, founder of Citizens of Humanity and 7 for All Mankind, on the thrill of building brands and the bewildering state of the market.
If anyone can shed light on what’s happening in denim today, it would be Jerome Dahan. For the founder of both Citizens of Humanity and 7 for All Mankind the focus on price points is undermining the industry, allowing denim to drift too far awa...
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17:44
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 ...
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FibreTrace: Getting Insight Into the Supply Chain
Kingpins Founder Andrew Olah recently talked with Shannon Mercer, CEO of FibreTrace, to discuss traceability tools to help brands gain insight into where their materials are coming from, as well as the role of consumer influence and compliance ...
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12:22
Heddels Blowout: Upstream Transformations with Andrew Olah of Kingpins Show
As consumers, we have the tiniest window into how the products we use are made. Maybe you get a single country of origin or the fiber content, but that hides the many other chemicals, countries, and suppliers that contributed to its production....
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Denim Talks: Presenting the Indigood podcast, a project presented by Kingpins and Lee
This week, Denim Talks is proud to introduce to a special project we’ve been working on with Lee. In the first episode, Lee’s Roian Atwood and Kingpins founder, Andrew Olah, explore each step of the denim supply chain, discussing th...
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32:41
The Journey is the Destination: A Conversation With Studio 189's Abrima Erwiah
Visitors to Kingpins’ Denim Days in New York will remember Studio 189’s bold prints and indigo-dyed textiles. The New York-based company, founded by fashion executive Abrima Erwiah and actress Rosario Dawson, was a regular exhibitor at the c...
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18:43
Time for a Reset: a conversation with Saitex owner Sanjeev Bahl
Sanjeev Bahl, owner of Saitex, has created a denim factory considered the cleanest in the world. Fair Trade-certified, as well as a Benefit Corporation, Saitex is constantly evolving as Bahl works to make the business cleaner, safer and more eq...
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26:32
Oo La La: Paul Guez and the Birth of Designer Denim
Paul Guez talks about the early days of designer denim, how he introduced French-style jeans to the U.S. market and that time he got Elton John to rewrite a song for him.
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Episode 2
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A Conversation With Kingpins Founder Andrew Olah
For the launch episode of Kingpins podcast series Denim Talks, we sit down with Andrew Olah, the founder of Kingpins, to talk about the history of the denim supply chain trade show, as well as the denim and jeans business' efforts to be more su...
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16:03
Just A Taste of Denim Talks
Denim Talks is the podcast by the Kingpins Show, the first-ever denim-only supply chain trade show. We're industry veterans, we're denim lovers, we like stories. Here's a tiny bit of an interview we did with Andrew Olah, founder of Kingpins Sho...
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