Kingpins Hong Kong Pop-Up Show Returns With Focus on Workwear
The event features a mix of programming geared towards both a trade and consumer audience
NEW YORK | November 2024 | Kingpins Show, the original jeans supply chain sourcing event and global denim platform, returns to Hong Kong for its November 21-22 run at DX Design Hub in Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po district.
This is Kingpins’ second pop-up event in Hong Kong and the event features about 25 exhibitors from Asia, Europe and the United States.
Kingpins Hong Kong is happening during The Fashion Union — A Platform to Celebrate the Beauty of Workwear, The Fashion Union’s 8-day “Beauty of Workwear” program, featuring vintage pieces co-curated by The Vintage Showroom’s Douglas Gunn for the Workwear Exhibition, as well as original designs by local Hong Kong Designers. The Fashion Union is organized by the Hong Kong Design Institute and supported by the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency, part of the Hong Kong Fashion Fest, which is presented by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Running concurrently with The Fashion Union event creates an opportunity to blend B2B and B2C elements and draw an attendee base that includes retailers, brands and denim-loving consumers.
Kingpins Hong Kong will feature a pop-up fashion show, as well as a Denim Talks seminar series and other denim-focused initiatives created to inform and inspire.
LilDenimJean founders Max Kaupp and Nick Baur will be back with “The Lil Denim Show,” which focuses on the next generation of denim creatives. Denim designer and consultant Miles Johnson will look at what’s in store for denim design in a presentation titled “Future in Sight,” while denim consultant David Tring will lead a discussion about material developments titled “Innovative Materials (From Lab to Loom).” Kingpins’ Managing Director & Head of Global Sales Vivian Wang will host the “Key Pieces from Inspiring Wardrobes Around the World,” panel, which has been curated by The Vintage Showroom.
Other initiatives include Kingpins’ One Denim project, which looks at the breadth of looks that can be achieved from a single fabrication. Cone Denim and Tonello worked with Kingpins to create the One Denim collection. Also, The Vintage Showroom’s Gunn will explore the intersection of denim and workwear in an installation titled “A Denim Workwear Love Story.”
KINGPINS HONG KONG POP-UP SCHEDULE
November 21
11:00 Show floor opens to visitors
12:00 Miles Johnson will lead “Denim Talks: Future in Sight”
14:30 Lildenimjean’s Max Kaupp and Nick Baur will host “Denim Talks: The Lil Denim Show” featuring Cheung Chak Shum’s Thought We Friends
17:00-19:00 Happy Hour
November 22
11:00 Show floor opens to visitors
12:00 David Tring will lead a panel discussion “Denim Talks: Innovative Materials (From Lab to Loom)
14:00 Vivian Wang will lead a panel discussion curated by The Vintage Showroom’s Douglas Gunn, titled “Denim Talks: Key Pieces from Inspiring Wardrobes Around the World”
15:00 Pop-up fashion show
16:00 Show ends
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ABOUT KINGPINS
The Kingpins Show is an invitation-only, boutique denim sourcing show featuring a highly-edited selection of vendors that include denim and sportswear fabric mills from the U.S., Japan, China, India, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, Thailand, Spain and Mexico; wash houses; full package manufacturers; trim providers; and makers of technology, wash chemicals and business solutions. Kingpins, which launched in 2004, produces biannual shows in New York and Amsterdam, as well as annual shows in Hong Kong and China.
In 2023, Messe Frankfurt became a shareholder in Kingpins. Under the agreement with the 800-year-old trade show organizer, Kingpins continues to operate independently as a platform for the industry to meet, network and share information and insights.
