KIMHĒKIM

KIMHĒKIM was founded in 2014 in Paris by Korean designer Kiminte Kimhēkim as a contemporary luxury womenswear brand specifically focused on what Kimhēkim described as 'a deliberately-romantic-and-conceptual Korean-Parisian-feminine vocabulary anchored to deliberately-deconstructed couture-aesthetic construction.' The brand has been one of the defining post-2014 Paris-anchored Korean-heritage contemporary-luxury-womenswear brands. The KIMHĒKIM vocabulary settled around several recurring elements: deconstructed silk and lace couture-aesthetic dresses with deliberately-Romantic-feminine construction, hand-finished crystal-and-embellishment dresses, the brand's iconic Pearl-embroidered tee-and-shirt programme (a defining 2018-era product), deliberately-architectural tailored separates with deliberately-Korean-Parisian-feminine-aesthetic proportional construction, and a colour palette anchored to washed-cream, oxblood, washed-pink, pearl-white, ecru, plus the brand's recurring use of saturated red, royal-blue, and the iconic Korean-Romantic-aesthetic colour combinations. The brand has presented at Paris Fashion Week each season since 2015. The brand is independent and held by Kimhēkim. KIMHĒKIM operates with no permanent retail of its own, distributing through SSENSE, MATCHES, Net-a-Porter, Lane Crawford, the Boontheshop network in Seoul, Mytheresa, the Webster, and a curated set of contemporary-luxury-womenswear specialty retailers globally. The brand has been one of the defining post-2014 Paris-anchored Korean-heritage 'Romantic-couture-aesthetic' brands.