As wildfires continue to tear through the outskirts of Los Angeles, designers and fashion brands have announced plans and initiatives to support those heavily impacted by the blaze. From fundraisers to clothing drives, here are what some are doing to help… Collina Strada New York-based designer Collina Strada took to Instagram to share that LA...
10 Jan 2025
The denim fair Kingpins celebrated its tenth anniversary edition in Amsterdam last week. A highlight of the fair was the trend presentation by its long-term partner Denim Dudes, which this time round was dedicated to denim trends for the spring/summer 2026 season and thus shed light on topics relevant to fashion professionals, such as consumer...
29 Oct 2024
Denim fair Kingpins is not just about denim shopping and networking. Every edition, visitors can also attend the Denim Dudes trend presentation by Amy Leverton and Shannon Reddy. The seminar room on the first floor of the exhibition venue SugarCity in Halfweg, the Netherlands, fills up half an hour before the trend presentation, with interested...
3 May 2024
Those who wanted to dive into the denim trends of SS25 at Kingpins had to be quick. Already about twenty minutes before the trend presentation started, the seminar room filled up with well-dressed guests. Obviously, everyone was in the mood for a bit of trend watching. Accordingly, Shannon Reddy pulled out all the stops for 45 minutes to present...
1 Nov 2023
Amidst all the denim blue at Kingpins, it was a colourful affair on the top floor of the denim fair’s home SugarCity on Thursday afternoon, October 20. There, trend watchers Amy Leverton and Shannon Reddy of Denim Dudes presented the denim trends for SS24, with a colourful PowerPoint full of images for inspiration. Reddy and Leverton grouped the...
25 Oct 2022
As part of the most recent edition of the Kingpins denim fair, which took place April 20 to 21 in Amsterdam, owner of Denim Dudes, Amy Leverton, presented four denim trends that can be expected for the coming autumn/winter 2023 season. The report was complemented by a presentation at the entrance of the event, where a range of looks related to...
26 Apr 2022
Amsterdam - Kingpins is back. The bi-annual trade fair, held in the Dutch capital as well as in New York, Hong Kong and China, is once again bringing together denim professionals for two days between 23 and 24 October. As always, one of the key topics during Kingpins is, quite unsurprisingly, which trends consumers will be shopping in coming...
24 Oct 2019