Rarely is a label so closely linked with a certain kind of lifestyle as it is with Kitsuné—the so-French-it-hurts crew that came up in the mid-aughts with such runway-ready luminaries as Hot Chip, Klaxons, Feist and Simian Mobile Disco. Equal parts fashion and music obsessed, the Kitsuné empire was founded in Paris in 2002 by Gildas Loaëc (who was once roommates with Guy-Manuel of Daft Punk, for real), Masaya Kuroki (a Japanese fashion student who toiled in Parisian ateliers), and the London design company Åbäke.
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