Cristina Kim. Korean designer. She was raised in the United States but she works between Los Angeles, London, Milan, and New York. She designs for the brand Dosa. She often draws inspiration from art. A shawl she created reproduces the…

A bag created last century, at the same time as the maison Hermès was founded, as a saddle-bag for horse-riders during hunting. But it was only in 1930 that the Parisian house decided to make it a woman’s bag by…

Aramidic synthetic fiber, available under the form of staple or continuous filament yarn. It is resistant to fire, cutting and abrasions. Kevlar is a DuPont brandname. It is used to manufactured sails. In 1992 Murphy&Nye was commissioned to produce the…

An expression used to indicate a smooth, bright and soft wool, obtained from angora kid.

Franz Kiener. German writer, his book on philosophic anthropology, Kleidung, Mode und Mensch (1956), brought together fashion and architectural styles, which he considers to be influenced by the same Zeitgeist. According to Kiener, clothes are the direct expression of the…

Nylon stockings that end at the knee in a wide elastic band, made to be worn with pants.

Large pants tucked in below the knees. Their name derives from Dietrich Knickerbocker, a pseudonym with which the writer Washington Irving wrote his History of New York in 1889. The book was illustrated with drawings of Dutch immigrants wearing this…

Peter Knapp (1931). Swiss photographer and graphic artist. He attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich where he became interested in photography. He moved to Paris in 1951 to attend a painting course at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the Julian…

Martin Kidman. English knitwear designer. After studying fashion at Central Saint Martin’s College (1985) he started working for Joseph Tricot in London. The following year, one of his pullovers — hand-worked with cherubs and rococo decorations — was a big…

Hiroko Koshino (1938). Japanese designer. Sister of Junko and Michiko, also designers, all of whom are daughters of a dressmaker from Osaka. Koshino has a thriving and diversified business operating primarily in Japan. Many of her most striking women’s designs…