NŌN BY KIM
NŌN by KIM redefines the male wardrobe from a conceptual, refined and modern perspective. Founded in 2007, the Dutch designer Kim Bakker mutates the archetypes of men's garments to push and explore the boundaries of menswear.
NŌN by KIM represents a world on it's own, translated to menswear. The designs are constructed from a combination of Bakker's fascinations. Fuelled by a love of abstraction, the everyday beauty that lies hidden in details, the listening to structured chaotic sounds and the viewing of slowly unfolding stories, the designer starts to analyse patterns and menswear pieces. She then goes after the boundaries of men's fashion, mutates and deconstructs its foundations, and reinterprets the accepted shapes. Mutated into garments, the parts together form a new layered silhouette which is defined by fine body conscious materials, considerate details, perfect finishes and a moderate use of colors. These ingredients form a collection which is captivating on many different levels and will not cease to inspire. Every novel collection assembles with the previous one: they all are part of an ongoing process. The style is highly consistent, and will therefore never age. This makes the designs very sustainable.
KIM BAKKER
After an Internship at Wendy&Jim, Kim Bakker graduated cum laude at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute in 2005: she received the AMFI prize for the best graduate collection of the year for her designs. The collection was also published in the magazine Items, as one of the "Best graduates from the Netherlands and Belgium". After having worked as a menswear designer for several brands (amongst others Gsus Sindustries and No Excess) for almost three years, Bakker decided to use her strong vision on men's fashion to start a label of her own. The collections were shown during the Amsterdam International Fashion Week, the Eurasia Fashion Week and the MQ Vienna Fashion Week.
Her groundbreaking, high fashion collections are characterized by the move away from traditional patterns, layered minimalistic silhouettes and modest colors.
