M: In school I had zero interest in jewelry. Never wore it growing up. Hated earings, the whole bit. I think the first piece of jewelry I ever made were these thick vinyl bracelets, and the hot tech worked at a print shop and a guy he worked with printed on the vinyl. I just wanted something I could make and wear. A little instant gratification. Later, I fell in love with metalsmithing. Katie knew I was interrested in metals, and put me in touch with this girl, and I got a job metalsmithing and restoring furniture. The two of you went out there and started working, designing for some pretty influential brands, and then what happened? K: There's really been something crazy
to it, because Michael and I have lost touch alot over the past 10 years, but something out there keeps pulling us together. M: Yeah definitely! We'd sort of come in and out each other's lives, then last year we ran into each other, and we were both out of work. We didnt really know what we were going to do. No direction. No plan. We met up one afternoon had some hummus and wine... and said, "Lets just make some jewelry and see what happens." K: We had been hanging out making jewelry for maybe a month, with no idea where the jewelry was going. Then I went into this store in Soho, and this chick liked the jewelry I was wearing
and I told her my partner and I designed it, and we were just about to launch a line. I was basically talking out of my ass. And then she was all, "Cool, send me a lookbook." M: So suddenly it was like, "Shit! We need a lookbook!" So we picked a name, made a logo, and produced a book. What's funny is the actual deal didn't even go though... but it was that conversation that stimulated the launch of our line, and we literallly made K/LLER happen in 3 days. That's rad. Cheers to that then.
Now, K/LLER Collection is available at over 20 stores worldwide, including Eva Gentry, Sucre, Ten Over Six, Grange Hall, Need Supply, and coming in January, Helmut Lang. To find a stockist near you, visit KLLERCOLLECTION.COM
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