Brands and retailers visiting this week’s Kingpins New York at Pier 36/Basketball City (January 21-22) will discover a highly curated selection of exhibitors representing the most innovative companies in the international global denim supply chain.

Kingpins consistently offers a mix of business networking with global denim mills and opportunities for inspiration and discovery to help denim makers plan their collections and research emerging trends in one central location.

In addition to finding the top denim international denim suppliers, visitors to the show will have access to the latest trend forecast from Be Disobedient and its analysts will be providing their Trend Picks based on the latest fabric, manufacturing and finishing developments from show exhibitors. 

Among new initiatives at the show is the S|Style Denim Lab backed by luxury powerhouse Kering, as an independent platform for emerging creatives to showcase their work using sustainable criteria.

Candiani has worked with Kering, which owns brands such as Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, McQueen and Brioni, for the latest edition, which focuses on denim and responsible water management. Project designers have experimented with advanced dyeing, washing and regenerative cotton solutions provided by Kering’s Material Innovation Lab in collaboration with PureDenim and Tonello.

In The Boxes, another area for showcasing creative collaboration, AGI Denim has worked with fibre artist and masterweaver Mahmoud Kosyaem and his Brooklyn-based weaving workshop CreativeMindsBK. Together they are showing how discarded denim scraps can be used to create beautiful, highly tactile tapestries that tell a compelling story about sustainability and the creative process.

Tonello has also worked with the US-based textile artist Maegan Neubeck, owner of MN Natural Dye Studio, on an installation called Botanical Alchemy based on botanical dyes and responsibly sourced raw materials.

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