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Unsung Hero: One Force Behind the Kingpins Show Shares Her Story
There are a lot of people behind making the denim industry’s magic happen. One of them is Vivian Wang, managing director and global sales at Olah Inc, who helps lead the charge on building one of the denim industry’s premier events, Kingpins. “Vivian came on to help us with our Los Angeles show in 2006. We had just launched the Kingpins Show in New York in 2004, so essentially we learned all about building a successful trade show together. Since then, Vivian has been instrumental in helping to build the show to what it is now, the biggest denim sourcing show in the world with editions in New York, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and China,” Kingpins founder Andrew Olah said.
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Canatiba Proves Brazil is Bringing Joy Into Denim Production
Things are bustling with Brazilian denim. And if you ask Textil Canatiba’s Fábio Augusto Covolan, that’s at least in part because Brazil is a “happy” country. That joy seems to manifest in Brazilian makers’ love for denim. To learn a little more about what makes Textil Canatiba tick, Carved in Blue caught up with the Brazilian mill to hear the latest in happenings at the company.
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Hong Kong Asserts Itself as a Powerhouse Denim Player
If you’re looking for denim inspiration, Hong Kong is a place to find it too. Specifically, you’ll find it at the bustling street fair that is the Hong Kong Denim Festival. Attendees from all walks of the blueblood life descended on the fair to peruse the latest in denim, witness denim as art, learn techniques for dyeing and get inspired all over again about the beloved fabric. Carved in Blue caught up with event sponsor Advance Denim’s Mark Ix, to get a taste for what the festival was like.
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What Monforts Makes of the Denim Industry in 2019
The denim industry would be little without the machinery that makes it. And Monforts, the global manufacturer and export of textile machines, knows a thing or two about advanced fabric finishing technology, has some unique insight into what the sector will see in 2019. Carved in Blue caught up with Hans Gerhard Wroblowski, head of denim at Monforts to find out more about the textile machinery maker.
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How Trade, Trends and Tech Will Shake Up the Denim Industry in 2019
Trade, technology, sustainability, collaborations and trends make the denim world go around. The topics were also among Rivet’s most-read and written about subjects in 2018. To offer insight into how these buzzwords may evolve in 2019, Lenzing’s director of global business development for denim Tricia Carey, Soorty executive director of global sales and marketing Ebru Debba?, Tejidos Royo sales manager Alberto Guzzetti and House of Gold designer Shirley Zheng sat down with Rivet managing editor Angela Velasquez at Bluezone in Munich last week for a panel titled, “Future Denim.”