KIMKIVITS

Recently graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Kim is now ready to conquer the fashion world with her sports -and outdoor inspired streetwear. She specialises most in unisex wear.
July 2016; Kim participated in the Lichting contest; Lichting is a dutch award show during the mercedes benz fashion. The concept of ‘Lichting’; the best academy graduates of one year in one central catwalk show. Kim was one of last year's 14 nominees.
What Kim wants to accomplish most with her designs is to tell people stories. These stories can
either be fictional or based on an accurate social issue. Kivits’ brand transcends a certain dark and moody atmosphere that usually covers the subject of the story that goes with it. What she wants to achieve as well is for people to see the aesthetic of outdoor wear and how functional outdoor wear can be worn as daily streetwear.
With her DOOMSDAY GRADUATE collection, Kim discusses two speculative scenarios that address extreme climate change in the future. The scenarios are named Ice Age and Flooding Era. The collection that goes with these two scenarios is supposed to protect people in these two complete new worlds with extreme weather conditions. All outfits are built around the classic three-layer concept, consisting of a bottom, middle and top layer. The layers, all made from special functional fabrics, are supposed to support each other to provide the wearer maximum protection against extreme cold or rainy weather conditions.

Currently working on a new collection and making name with RECONSTRUCT, the collective that she co-founded along with 7 of her fellow WDKA fashion graduates, she is ready to make a change in the fashion world.