Find out how the signature dress that landed in the star’s closet, all started as a gift between two lovers.
Get to Know Kim Kardashian-Approved Knitwear Designer Namita Khade
Central Saint Martins student Namita Khade loves being able to control a piece of clothing right from the start. She wields this power in her custom “knitwear experiments,” as she calls them on her Instagram. “It all starts there. It’s the foundation of clothes and designing clothes. It’s all about the fibers you use. You really start from scratch,” says Khade, who learned to knit just weeks before starting at CSM in 2018. Her designs, slinky dresses and tops with plentiful cutouts which go far beyond knitwear staples like sweaters and scarves, have a romantic yet grungy feel and have landed on the likes of Kim Kardashian.
Khade has a talent for making knitwear look both heavy and light. Sometimes that’s because the item is translucent, as is the case with a striped dress with an earthy color palette, or because of the way the pieces drape and weave in and out of itself, allowing for cutouts. Some are held together by upcycled key clips or fragile beads lifted from back-of-the-closet items like an old purse. “You see the way people [change] when they wear something sleek and the way that they feel. [There’s a] confidence, that feeling of freedom, and having no boundaries with what you want to put on your body,” says Khade. She tries to make that feeling of ease as obvious as possible to anyone that looks at her work.
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Cassandra Pintro
