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Jeansland PodcastEp. 38: Denim That Means Something with Michael Morrell and Paul LedgettAndrew sits down with two people who lived through the denim business alongside him for years. Michael Morrell and Paul Ledgett were his partners at Olah Inc., and together they built something that worked because they gave a damn about the product, the people, and doing things right.In this conversation, they go back. They talk about what it meant to run a denim agency in New York when the industry still cared about design and relationships. When you could shake hands on a deal and it meant something. When brands actually built brands instead of chasing...
2025-10-1544 min
Jeansland PodcastEp. 27 (Short): Kingpins July Recap - Trade Shows, Tariffs & the Denim Domino EffectTrade shows are usually about deals and discovery. But at this July’s Kingpins in New York, the most important moments came from the conversations happening off the show floor. In this solo episode, Andrew Olah shares what he saw, what he heard, and what’s on his mind. The turnout was strong, the food was excellent (people notice!), and the hospitality made a difference. Still, there was an undercurrent of unease about what comes next.At the heart of it all is one thing: uncertainty. With shifting tariff threats and delayed decisions, many in the denim worl...
2025-07-3004 min
Jeansland PodcastEp. 26: The Art of the Find with Doug Gunn and Roy Luckett from The Vintage ShowroomWhat happens when two street market dealers turn a love of vintage into one of the most respected fashion archives in the world?In this episode, Andrew Olah sits down with Doug Gunn and Roy Luckett, the co-founders of The Vintage Showroom, a London-based archive and consultancy that has quietly shaped the way global fashion houses think, shop, and design. From rainy mornings at Portobello Market to curating workwear exhibitions in Hong Kong, Doug and Roy share how they built a private, by-appointment showroom filled with rare military, utility, and denim pieces, each one steeped in story...
2025-07-2347 min
Jeansland PodcastEp. 24: From Begging for Orders to Building Power with Umer Farooq Qureshi - Part 2In this powerful two-part conversation, Andrew Olah welcomes back Umer Farooq Qureshi for a deep dive into the structural imbalances plaguing the denim supply chain. Framed by the enduring legacy of colonial capitalism, the discussion explores how suppliers have been conditioned to act like beggars in pursuit of orders — and how that mindset must shift. Together, they challenge conventional wisdom on pricing, power, partnerships, and trade shows, while calling for a new era of unity, dignity, and bold reinvention.Did you know that both Berkshire Hathaway and Samsung started in textiles and went on...
2025-06-2440 min
Jeansland PodcastEp. 23: From Begging for Orders to Building Power with Umer Farooq Qureshi - Part 1In this powerful two-part conversation, Andrew Olah welcomes back Umer Farooq Qureshi for a deep dive into the structural imbalances plaguing the denim supply chain. Framed by the enduring legacy of colonial capitalism, the discussion explores how suppliers have been conditioned to act like beggars in pursuit of orders — and how that mindset must shift. Together, they challenge conventional wisdom on pricing, power, partnerships, and trade shows, while calling for a new era of unity, dignity, and bold reinvention.Did you know that both Berkshire Hathaway and Samsung started in textiles and went on...
2025-06-2425 min
Jeansland PodcastEp. 21: Brand Building and Design with Johnny DiamandisDesigner and brand consultant Johnny Diamandis joins Andrew Olah to explore what it truly takes to build a fashion brand today. With a globally successful track record designing menswear, accessories, and more for brands like Evisu, Burberry London, Nike, Fake London, and CAT Footwear, Johnny shares candid insights from both industry and academia. The conversation covers the financial realities of launching a brand, storytelling, design leadership, innovation, and what makes a product stand out—plus thoughtful advice for students and emerging designers. His teaching work includes institutions such as the Royal College of Art London, Parsons New York, and cu...
2025-05-2146 min
BLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®BLUE CAST Ep 514 - Andrew OlahBLUE CAST Ep 514 - Andrew OlahThis BLUE CAST Episode, Tuncay Kilickan talks with Andrew Olah.Andrew is the owner and CEO of Olah Inc. where he has worked since 1976 spending his early years involved in Denim Development and marketing . In 2004 he founded the Kingpins Show which is today the largest jean supply chain show in the world. Being a big believer in education Andrew spent 15 years helping FIT with their capstone jeans course. In 2015 he started Kingpins Transformers, an event meant to educate the denim industry and in 2019 Transformer’s ED, a prog...
2025-05-1049 min
Jeansland PodcastEp. 18: Andrew's Post Kingpins ThoughtsIn this solo episode, Andrew returns from a whirlwind week—first as a guest at the Kingpin Show in Amsterdam, his first time attending since selling the business, and then at a high-level diplomatic event in Washington, D.C.—to share unfiltered reflections on industry dynamics, global economic shifts, and the rising impact of U.S. tariffs. From the importance of venue vibes to why group negotiations could save the supply chain, this candid conversation covers it all. Plus, insights from an unexpected bright spot: Pakistan’s surprising economic turnaround.Got thoughts on the episode or something you'd...
2025-04-2810 min
Jeansland PodcastHeddels Blowout: Upstream Transformations with Andrew Olah of Kingpins ShowAs consumers, we have the tiniest window into how the products we use are made. Maybe you get a single country of origin or the fiber content, but that hides the many other chemicals, countries, and suppliers that contributed to its production. Andrew Olah has been in the upstream world of denim and clothing production for nearly 50 years and has run the Kingpins Show, one of the biggest markets and informational resources for denim and jeans manufacturers, since 2004. We talk with Andrew about everything from his early days in the denim business, how to run a trade...
2025-01-1654 min
Denim TalksAndrew Olah and Salli DeightonSalli Deighton got her start at Wrangler and Lee and went on to build a career working in denim design and product development for some of the largest retailers and brands. The latest project for the U.K. native is close to home — quite literally. In early 2025, she plans to open LaundRE, a denim laundry in the heart of London. The project is many years in the making but now is poised to officially open. Once fully operational, Deighton said the facility will be able to process 1,000 units/day. Kingpins founder Andrew Olah recently caught up w...
2024-12-1926 min
GenAI Level UPRecurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) - Level 5This episode delves into the groundbreaking RNN Encoder-Decoder architecture, a neural network model that revolutionized machine translation.
We'll explore how this model learns to encode and decode sequences of words, enabling more accurate and fluent translations. Discover how researchers have used this powerful tool to improve the performance of statistical machine translation systems and explore the potential for future applications.
Online Tutorials:
"Understanding LSTM Networks" by Christopher Olah: A comprehensive blog post explaining the mechanics of LSTM networks. (colah.github.io)
"Sequence Models" in the Deep Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng on Coursera: A...
2024-12-1532 min
2024-11-1416 min
Denim TalksFashion, Feminism & the FutureAyesha Barenblat, founder & CEO of Remake, shares how the Instagram generation is galvanizing social change IRL. Remake is founded on the idea of ‘radical disruption.’ The organization leverages everything from social media to public policy to make equitable business practices and mindful consumption a reality. In addition to partnerships with the Clean Clothes Campaign, the International Labor Organization and other likeminded NGOs, Remake’s community organizing efforts have provoked more than 2,000 young people around the globe to join in the fight for human rights and climate justice.“The real way to really get citizens t...
2024-10-1530 min
Denim TalksAndrew Olah and Paolo Leidi Get Technical About DenimKingpins Founder Andrew Olah recently caught up with textile engineer Paolo Leidi to talk about the state of denim manufacturing and what they see on the horizon. Paolo Leidi is the Denim, Corduroy and Apparel fabrics Engineer at ITE. Website: www.itetex.comInstagram: @ite_indigo_taste_experience
2024-10-1528 min
Denim TalksSanjeev Bahl, founder and CEO of Saitex, talks happiness, disruption and the limitations of the current sustainability conversations.Sanjeev Bahl is tired of talking about sustainability.As the founder and CEO of Saitex, a fully vertical textile company that spins and weaves denim from yarns they have dyed with sewing factories in Ho Chi Minh City and Los Angeles, he has received numerous recognitions for the company’s socially and environmentally conscious stance. But he said, the goal from the outset was just to do the right thing. And today, Bahl is still waiting for apparel to commit to making the necessary investments to stop the “race to the bottom” that’s impeding advancements and adoption...
2024-07-0832 min
The TLS PodcastRegeneration GamesThis week, we look at the busy afterlives of two canonical characters: Nathalie Olah on Tom Ripley and Emelyne Godfrey on Sherlock Holmes.'Ripley', on Netflix'The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes: The inspiration behind the world’s greatest detective', by Andrew LycettProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-05-1646 min
World Resources Institute Podcasts PlusVoices on Supply Chains Episode 1 - The Lack Of Worker PowerModern supply chains are global, complex, and touch nearly everyone in some way — you’re either part of the production process for a given commodity, a consumer of that product or service, or both. However, current supply chain practices fail to properly value our natural resources and the people working within them.
Over the course of three episodes, you'll hear from a dozen experts who will explain why centering people is an effective strategy for large corporations to meet their supply chain sustainability goals. This first episode is focused on a key missing ingredient in most corporate plans: the voices of s...
2024-04-1724 min
Denim TalksJerome Dahan, founder of Citizens of Humanity and 7 for All Mankind, on the thrill of building brands and the bewildering state of the market.If anyone can shed light on what’s happening in denim today, it would be Jerome Dahan. For the founder of both Citizens of Humanity and 7 for All Mankind the focus on price points is undermining the industry, allowing denim to drift too far away from the creativity that propelled brands like his to success.Andrew Olah, founder of the Kingpins trade show and the Olah Inc. agency, has known Dahan for decades and credits him for bringing innovation to what had been a stale category. “Part of it is timing. Timing is everything. He had the perf...
2024-04-1517 min
Denim TalksCommon Thread the Movie by Scott Morrison and conversation with Andrew OlahIn 2019, my friend Scott Morrison made a pilot for what he hoped would be a series of shows about jeans. YouTube indicates that 460,000 people have seen it to date, but I’ve never heard one person mention it. Plus, the few people I asked about the show all said they had never heard of it — let alone seen it. Scott is a legend in our industry having started not one, not two but three successful brands: Paper Denim & Cloth, Earnest Sewn and 3x1 Denim. The 3x1 Soho store shuttered pre-Covid at the end of 2019, as did the brand...
2024-01-0935 min
Denim TalksFibreTrace: Getting Insight Into the Supply ChainKingpins Founder Andrew Olah recently talked with Shannon Mercer, CEO of FibreTrace, to discuss traceability tools to help brands gain insight into where their materials are coming from, as well as the role of consumer influence and compliance with international legislation aimed at ensuring responsible sourcing.
2022-10-0612 min
US Cotton Trust Protocol - Smarter ConversationsSustainability in cotton production: debunking myths and false claimsThis episode starts from a recent report from Transformers Foundation debunking myths on the lack of sustainability in the cotton industry. Dr. Jesse Daystar, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Cotton Incorporated and special advisor to the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, Andrew Olah, Founder of Transformers Foundation, and Marzia Lanfranchi, Cotton Advisor at Transformers Foundation, explain why the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol provides higher certainty on sustainability performance and why programs of this kind are the way to go.
2022-03-0927 min
The Nonlinear Library: Alignment Forum Top PostsSearch versus design by Alex FlintWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio.
This is: Search versus design, published by Alex Flint on the AI Alignment Forum.
This work was supported by OAK, a monastic community in the Berkeley hills. It could not have been written without the daily love of living in this beautiful community. The work involved in writing this cannot be separated from the sitting, chanting, cooking, cleaning, crying, correcting, fundraising, listening, laughing, and teaching of the whole community.
This write-up benefited from feedback...
2021-12-041h 15
Flight Suit FridayE24: AIRSTA New Orleans Special pt. 1Sorry for the delay! AIRSTA NOLA get's a great shout-out this week as we do a deep-dive into a harrowing week of SAR for the crews. LCDR Tim Olah, LT Andrew Scheffy, LT Isaac Babcock discuss their cases, the unit, and of course, the area. The episode ran long as most SAR cases do, so we broke it into two episodes. Enjoy part one!
We plan to release shows on a bi-weekly basis. On Fridays of course!
Hosts: LCDR Kenny Ingram, LCDR Sam Hafensteiner
Producer: LT Ryan Vandehei
Technical Director & Editor...
2021-10-2352 minFlight Suit FridayE25: AIRSTA New Orleans Special pt. 1Sorry for the delay! AIRSTA NOLA get's a great shout-out this week as we do a deep-dive into a harrowing week of SAR for the crews. LCDR Tim Olah, LT Andrew Scheffy, LT Isaac Babcock discuss their cases, the unit, and of course, the area. The episode ran long as most SAR cases do, so we broke it into two episodes. Enjoy part one!
We plan to release shows on a bi-weekly basis. On Fridays of course!
Hosts: LCDR Kenny Ingram, LCDR Sam Hafensteiner
Producer: LT Ryan Vandehei
Technical Director &...
2021-10-2352 min
Denim TalksHeddels Blowout: Upstream Transformations with Andrew Olah of Kingpins ShowAs consumers, we have the tiniest window into how the products we use are made. Maybe you get a single country of origin or the fiber content, but that hides the many other chemicals, countries, and suppliers that contributed to its production. Andrew Olah has been in the upstream world of denim and clothing production for nearly 50 years and has run the Kingpins Show, one of the biggest markets and informational resources for denim and jeans manufacturers, since 2004. We talk with Andrew about everything from his early days in the denim business, how to run a trade...
2021-09-1654 min
Heddels Blowout58 - Transformations Upstream with Andrew Olah of Kingpins ShowAs consumers, we have the tiniest window into how the products we use are made. Maybe you get a single country of origin or the fiber content, but that hides the many other chemicals, countries, and suppliers that contributed to its production. Andrew Olah has been in the upstream world of denim and clothing production for nearly 50 years and has run the Kingpins Show, one of the biggest markets and informational resources for denim and jeans manufacturers, since 2004.
We talk with Andrew about everything from his early days in the denim business, how to run a trade...
2021-09-0855 min
ManufacturedManufactured x Transformers Foundation: Marzia Lanfranchi and Andrew Olah on a Constitution for the Fashion IndustryWhat is Transformers Foundation? What are the Eight Ethical Principles? And how, exactly, will they serve as a “Constitution” for the Ethical Denim Council?
2021-06-0836 min
ManufacturedManufactured x Transformers Foundation: Marzia Lanfranchi and Andrew Olah on Putting Supplier Voices at the Center of the Sustainable Fashion StoryIn this episode, Andrew Olah and Marzia Lanfranchi of Transformers Foundation, share what they think is missing from the sustainable fashion story, and why they think supplier voices should be at its center.
2021-06-0834 minDenim TalksDenim Talks: Presenting the Indigood podcast, a project presented by Kingpins and LeeThis week, Denim Talks is proud to introduce to a special project we’ve been working on with Lee. In the first episode, Lee’s Roian Atwood and Kingpins founder, Andrew Olah, explore each step of the denim supply chain, discussing the sustainability challenges and potential opportunities to make denim better for the world, better for the environment and better for you.New Indigood episodes will be available every other Friday. Stream The Indigood Podcast on the kingpinsshow.com website or wherever you get your podcasts.
2021-01-2932 min
The Modern Cotton StoryAn interview with Chris Fennig of myFarms.com about facts and data collected in cotton farming.Join Jennifer Crumpler of BASF’s e3 sustainable cotton program, and Andrew Olah and Robert Antoshak of Olah Inc., for a detailed and insightful interview with Chris Fennig, Managing Director of myFarms.com, who discusses the tools his company uses to collect hard statistics about how cotton in grown throughout the United States. Specifically, Chris’s firm measures important field-level metrics such as water usage, carbon footprint, etc., and, by doing so, helps to debunk myths surrounding the cotton supply chain.
2020-09-0436 minThe Modern Cotton StoryAn interview with Bill Ballenden of DragonTree Trading, a cotton trading platform for farmers.Join Jennifer Crumpler of BASF’s e3 sustainable cotton program, and Andrew Olah and Robert Antoshak of Olah Inc., for an important and insightful interview with Bill Ballenden, Owner and CEO of DragonTree Cotton Trading who helps to debunk myths surrounding the cotton supply chain, as well as introducing his cotton trading platform for farmers around the world. He also gives his thoughts about the impact of Covid-19 on the cotton supply chain, understanding the strengths and weaknesses of industry sustainability claims and metrics, the role played by today's apparel industry in supporting (or not) sustainable supply chains, and the im...
2020-08-2135 minThe Modern Cotton StoryDebunking cotton myths: an interview and discussion with respected writer, Veronica Bates Kassatly.Join Jennifer Crumpler of BASF's e3 sustainable cotton program, and Andrew Olah and Bob Antoshak of Olah Inc., for an important and insightful interview with author (at Apparel Insider magazine), consultant, and former World Bank economist, Veronica Bates Kassatly, about debunking myths surrounding cotton and other fibers, the responsibilities of NGOs, understanding the strengths and weaknesses of industry sustainability claims and metrics, and the role played by today's apparel industry in supporting (or not) sustainable supply chains.
2020-08-0847 minThe Modern Cotton StoryOrganic VS. GMO Cotton. What does a cotton expert think? And how important is transparency?Join Jennifer Crumpler of BASF’s e3 sustainable cotton program, and Andrew Olah and Bob Antoshak of Olah Inc., for an fascinating and insightful interview with Crispin Argento, Director of The Sourcery (thesourcery.io), about organic and GMO cotton, transparency, sustainability, and today's apparel industry.
2020-07-3043 minThe Modern Cotton StoryA discussion with Roian Atwood, Senior Director of Global Sustainable Business, at KontoorBrands.Join Jennifer Crumpler of BASF’s e3 sustainable cotton program, and Andrew Olah and Bob Antoshak of Olah Inc., for an interview with Roian Atwood, Senior Director of Global Sustainable Business at KontoorBrands, Inc., for a discussion about cotton, sustainability, and impact of Covid-19 on today's apparel industry.
2020-06-2637 minThe Modern Cotton StoryA discussion about cotton and today's textile industry with a leading weaver and yarn spinner.Join Jennifer Crumpler of BASF’s e3 sustainable cotton program, and Andrew Olah and Bob Antoshak of Olah Inc., for an interview with Aaron Driggers, Product Development Director of Prosperity Textiles, and Fernando Arguelles, Strategic Development Officer of Vidalia Mills for a discussion about cotton, the textile industry, and the role of sustainability in the textile market today.
2020-06-2036 minThe Modern Cotton StoryWhat role does a cotton merchant play in the textile supply chain?Join Jennifer Crumpler of BASF’s e3 sustainable cotton program, and Andrew Olah and Bob Antoshak of Olah Inc. for an interview with Steve Dyer, Global Head of Cotton Marketing for the Louis Dreyfus Company, the world's largest cotton merchant.
2020-05-2637 min
Forex SimproLanjutkan Kenaikan, Harga Emas Capai Level Tertinggi 7,5 TahunHarga emas melompak ke level tertinggi sejak November 2012 di awal perdagangan hari Senin meskipun Presiden Fed Jerome Powell mengesampingkan suku bunga negative dan harga saham juga menguat. Logam mulia ini naik menyentuh level $173,58 (platform MT5 PT JavaGlobal Futures) pada Senin pagi dan sekaligus melanjutkan kenaikan empat hari sebelumnya.
Apa yang membuat harga emas melonjak naik?
Jerome Powell memang enggan menggunakan suku bunga ngatif untuk merespon dampak ekonomi coronavirus yang telah merusak ekonomi AS. Namun Powell mengatakan bahwa bank sentral harus berbuat lebih banyak dalam hal ini memberikan stimulus untuk membantu ekonomi menyerap goncangan yang ditimbulkan...
2020-05-1802 minThe Modern Cotton StoryDo You Know Where Your Cotton Comes From (Part 2)Sponsored by e3 Sustainable Cotton by BASF, this episode discusses what it takes to be a modern cotton farmer, as we interview Marshall Hardwick of The Hardwick Planting Co. and learn about soil health, cotton quality, and the appeal of American cotton. Moderator: Jennifer Crumpler of BASF. Interviewers: Andrew Olah & Bob Antoshak of Olah Inc.
2020-05-1521 minThe Modern Cotton StoryDo You Know Where Your Cotton is From?Sponsored by e3 Sustainable Cotton by BASF, this episode explores the challenges, opportunities and innovation necessary to meet the need to today’s farmers and end users of cotton from mills to brands and to retailers. Moderator: Jennifer Crumpler of BASF. Interviewers: Andrew Olah & Bob Antoshak of Olah Inc. Speakers: Malin Westfall & Cory Mills of BASF.
2020-04-2727 min
Denim TalksA Conversation With Kingpins Founder Andrew OlahFor the launch episode of Kingpins podcast series Denim Talks, we sit down with Andrew Olah, the founder of Kingpins, to talk about the history of the denim supply chain trade show, as well as the denim and jeans business' efforts to be more sustainable (and the challenges of defining that term). Plus, Andrew tells us how he got hooked on denim.
2020-03-2516 min
Denim TalksJust A Taste of Denim TalksDenim Talks is the podcast by the Kingpins Show, the first-ever denim-only supply chain trade show. We're industry veterans, we're denim lovers, we like stories. Here's a tiny bit of an interview we did with Andrew Olah, founder of Kingpins Show. The full episode and more with really great denim people (Abrima Erwiah of Studio 189, Paul Guez of Sasson Jeans ('member?!), Constance Garvey of Recursive and more) will be available in 2020.Stay tuned!Denim Talks is hosted by:Alison A. Nieder, Fashion JournalistErin Barajas, Director of Communications, Kingpins
2019-10-0805 min
Sourcing Journal RadioRivet 50: Andrew OlahSince debuting Kingpins 2004 as a small gallery-like show, Olah Inc. founder Andrew Olah has played host to the global denim supply chain at Kingpins events in New York, Amsterdam and across China.
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2019-03-1819 min
Planisphère - Radio Campus ParisPlanisphère : 15 – Musiques ambiantes // 10.01.19Bienvenue dans Planisphère, l'émission expé de Radio Campus Paris ! Un jeudi par mois de 22h à minuit, on vous fait écouter des pépites perchées et planantes en explorant un sujet lié aux musiques expérimentales.
On commence la nouvelle année en douceur. Après trop de tubes de Noël inécoutables ou trop écoutés, l'équipe de Planisphère se repose les oreilles. Deux heures de musiques ambiantes, ou si vous voulez : musique de fond, Muzak, musique d'ascenseur ou de salle d'attente. D'Erik Satie aux derniers disciples de Brian Eno, on fait le tour des tapisseurs sono...
2019-01-071h 59
Sourcing Journal RadioFact or FictionThis episode focuses on the futility of setting sustainability goals without including traceability, how doing good can also be good for the bottom line and the technology that promises to get us there.
Our guests include:
David Greenstein, CEO of Himatsingka America, one of the largest wholesalers of home textiles in the United States. David oversees the Calvin Klein, Kate Spade and Barbara Barry brands, and he introduced the world’s first fully traceable cotton under the labels Pimacott and Homegrown.
Additionally, we have Andrew Olah, founder of the Kingpins denim trade shows, which ce...
2018-08-1636 min