Kai D: Slow Fashion Gaines Momentum
He’s the owner, designer and janitor, and that suits Kai Fan to a tee. Or a nice blazer or linen tie. Relatively new to the domestic manufacturing market (the shop is about to turn six months old), Kai D in Brooklyn is a supple collection of simple, rugged clothing lines and accessories that seem dipped...
Saluting Small Business
“Made in America” is a tagline that can inspire patriotism or shouts of global exclusion. After talking to Brad Schmidt, Chief Everything Officer—his term—for New York-based retailer Cadet, I came up with a more unique label that I think will only induce sentimental sighs of everything we love about New York—“Made in Brooklyn.” One of...
And the Bandana Played On
I have that kind of Scottish-Irish hair that doesn’t grow long, but rather wild, wavy and very big. I first started growing out my hair in college after 18 years of buzz cuts. My lush and loose locks were a new ‘me’ to present to a world away from home, but these curls were full...
All in a Day’s Work(wear)
“Clothes make the man” –Mark Twain, American writer If Mark Twain was correct, then the high school version of me—donned in a mandatory cheap polyester apron, polo shirt and shapeless pants—knew my place. And it wasn’t at the top of the fashion food chain. I was working for a major bagel store (back when bagels...
