ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 147 days
Average audio length:
25 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
17 episodes
since Oct. 8, 2019
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
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.
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
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.
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 — quite literally. In early 2025, she plans to open LaundRE, a denim …
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 consu…
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
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…
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…
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 alon…
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 respon…
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