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Krazy for Kappa: Why the Iconic Italian Sports Label Is Fashion’s Darling

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By Laird Borrelli-Persson
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    Valerie Brisco-Hooks with Florence Griffith at the 1984 Olympics.

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    Edwin Moses at the IAAF World Athletics Championships, 1987.

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    Damon Albarn, 1996

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    Zinedine Zidane and Alessandro Del Piero of Juventus, 1999

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    Kate Moss, as Katie Pollard, spoofing the Little Britian television show, performs in aid of Comic Relief, 2006.

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    Gosha Rubchinskiy Spring 2017

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    Street style at Men’s Fashion Week in London, 2017

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    Sonia Ben Ammar and Brooklyn Beckham, 2017

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    Migos’s Quavo, 2017

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    Abra, 2017

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    Faith Connexion x Kappa, Spring 2018

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    Opening Ceremony x Kappa

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    Street style at Seoul Fashion Week, Spring 2018

Christian Lacroix is Laird Borrelli-Persson’s fashion raison d’etre; the way he combined romance and historicism set her on the path she is following today. Borrelli-Persson studied literature at Boston College, spending her junior year abroad at Oxford, where she added some art history. After graduation she moved to New York to intern ... Read More
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