Brands participating in the summit, held during the recent Kingpins Amsterdam fair, included Target and Jeanologia.

Blue was the hottest color on the streets at professional fair Kingpins and Blueprint festival, highlights of the Amsterdam Denim Days.

The European edition of the specialist denim fair highlighted green practices, vintage styles and activewear.

With its sights set on the future generation, the Italian denim mill has achieved unprecedented water and chemicals reductions and unveiled its green goals for 2020.

Highlights included a seminar on politics and trade addressing such topics as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) trade deal, Brexit and the U.S. election.

The 29-year-old Dutch designer scooped the third edition of the denim prize coinciding with Kingpins Amsterdam.

Denim made with Coolmax EcoMade is breathable and moisture wicking, and made primarily from recycled plastic bottles.

Amsterdam Denim Days, four days during which the capital of the Netherlands hosts events for the trade such as the Kingpins denim suppliers’ show as well as consumer events, is to debut a New York edition in 2017.

Amsterdam was host to both the premium denim trade show and the Denim Days, celebrating the fabric around the city.

The Amsterdam edition of the premium denim trade fair was strong on novelties and grew with Why, a boutique branding-only show.

Industry insiders debated solid, liquid and airborne waste at the annual conference in Amsterdam.

The denim market is turning to what it does best to not only survive, but to thrive: innovating on the product development front.

Brands discussed what “premium” means in the denim world as knit jeans gain momentum.

Some of the innovations at the Kingpins trade show.

A growing interest in stretch denim is helping move the jeans market toward investigating other performance characteristics.