Field Notes: Sustainability at Work, Home and Play

Brand new developments in denim include a venture called Kingpins Exchange, a partnership with Material Exchange and Kingpins Show. The firms’ powers combined to merge Material Exchange’s sourcing platform and Kingpins Show’s access to and engagement with denim supply chain members to create a centralized online sourcing hub that will launch in late October on the Kingpins Show web site. The need for cohesion stemmed from the COVID-19 pandemic, which “forced all industries to turn to digital solutions in lieu of in-person meetings, [and] denim suppliers have been challenged to find online solutions for presenting their offerings to established and potential clients,” the firms said. “In the vacuum created by the pandemic, denim buyers seeking to understand the developments across the market are navigating a disparate mix of online presentation software, digital showrooms, PowerPoint presentations and web sites developed by their supply chain partners,” they added. And Kingpins Exchange is its solution: A digital showroom platform equipped with “purpose-built tools designed to give denim mills an ideal space to present their collections and engage in effective storytelling,” as well as a marketplace featuring top denim suppliers where buyers can source from in a “unified environment,” and support in the form of leveraging Kingpins

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