Kingpins Partners With Stylesight
Kingpins, the international boutique denim sourcing show founded in 2004, announced its partnership with trend forecaster Stylesight.The team will offer Stylesight’s visionary knowledge and tools to “Kingpins show floors internationally [and] will give denim brands, mills, wash houses and manufacturers access to the forward-thinking and highly specialized information that will help them navigate their business in future seasons.”In their combined efforts, Stylesight and Kingpins will curate unique material for Stylesight clients and Kingpins attendees based on their denim experience and data collected on Kingpins’ show floor. Together, they will implement denim trend direction at all of their shows, including Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
They debuted with Stylesight’s presentations of “Megatrends F/W 13: Denim Fabric + Finish” at Kingpins’ Hong Kong show in August. “We are so thrilled to announce this partnership, which we think will bring an incredible amount of value to not only our show floor but also to the unique content Kingpins strives to provide to our exhibitors and attendees,” said Andrew Olah, founder of the Kingpins trade show, in a statement. “We have worked with Stylesight for several seasons overseas and were proud to welcome them for the first time as presenters to our New York and Los Angeles shows this season.”
The Kingpins show is an invitation-only, boutique denim-sourcing show featuring a mix of vendors that include denim and sportswear fabric mills from the United States Japan, China, India, Morocco, Mexico and Europe; wash houses; full package manufacturers; trim providers; and business solutions.—Sarah Wolfson
