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.
At Kingpins New York in July 2025, Lil Denim Jean (@lildenimjean) founders Nick Baur and Max Kaupp speak with designer Federico Berengo (@barengo) about his denim collection.
13 Oct 2025
Denim Talks: LDJ x JXRGE
At Kingpins New York in July 2025, Lil Denim Jean (@lildenimjean) founders Nick Baur and Max Kaupp speak with JXRGE (@jxrgewmarr) about the creative process and how JXRGE's work as a tattoo artist influences his denim design.
18 Dec 2024
Andrew Olah and Salli Deighton
Salli Deighton, industry expert in denim design and product development, shares her vision for LaundRE, a revolutionary denim laundry in London that will transform the industry's sustainability and quality standards.
14 Nov 2024
Andrew Olah and Steven Bethell
14 Oct 2024
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. Website: www.itetex.comInstagram: @ite_indigo_taste_experience
14 Oct 2024
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 social media to public policy to make equitable business practices and mindful consumption a reality. In addition to partnerships with the Clean Clothes Campaign, the International Labor Organization and other likeminded NGOs, Remake’s community organizing efforts have pr...
8 Jul 2024
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 has received numerous recognitions for the company’s socially and environmentally conscious stance. But he said, the goal from the outset was just to do the right thing. And today, Bahl is still waiting for apparel to commit to making the necessary investments...
15 Apr 2024
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 away from the creativity that propelled brands like his to success.Andrew Olah, founder of the Kingpins trade show and the Olah Inc. agency, has known Dahan for decades and credits him for bringing innovation to what had been a stale category. “Part of it ...
9 Jan 2024
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-C...
6 Oct 2022
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 with international legislation aimed at ensuring responsible sourcing.
16 Sept 2021
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. Andrew Olah has been in the upstream world of denim and clothing production for nearly 50 years and has run the Kingpins Show, one of the biggest markets and informational resources for denim and jeans manufacturers, since 2004. We talk with Andrew abo...
29 Jan 2021
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 the sustainability challenges and potential opportunities to make denim better for the world, better for the environment and better for you.New Indigood episodes will be available every other Friday. Stream The Indigood Podcast on the kingpinsshow.com website or...
2 Jul 2020
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 consumer-facing denim festival. We sat down with Erwiah at the festival last year to hear the story behind Studio 189 and to discuss the company’s sustainable mission.
28 Apr 2020
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 equitable. Bahl talks to us about the industry's need for a reset and what to consider to move forward.
6 Apr 2020
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.
24 Mar 2020
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 sustainable (and the challenges of defining that term). Plus, Andrew tells us how he got hooked on denim.
8 Oct 2019
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 Show. The full episode and more with really great denim people (Abrima Erwiah of Studio 189, Paul Guez of Sasson Jeans ('member?!), Constance Garvey of Recursive and more) will be available in 2020.Stay tuned!Denim Talks is hosted by:Alison A. Nieder, Fash...
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