🇮🇹ICEBERG AND KAILAND O.MORRIS - THE LAUNCH OF THE CO-DESIGNED CAPSULE COLLECTION IS OFFICIAL!
- MY MODAMORE
- 1 mar 2021
- Tempo di lettura: 4 min
Aggiornamento: 5 dic 2022
Italian ready-to-wear label ICEBERG has tapped artist Kailand O. Morris - son of music legend Stevie Wonder & fashion designer Kai Milla for a codesigned capsule collection.
ICEBERG and Kailand O. Morris come together for an exploration of culture and wearable transcendence with a collection which embodies ICEBERG’s sport-luxe and underground attitude with a Hype Psychedelic spin. Launching in July 2021, the collection encompasses an assortment of puffer jackets, cargo pants, anorak vests, hoodies, t-shirts, baseball caps, socks and more, available in light taupe, steel blue, vibrant orange and chromatic whites and blacks, adorned with hand-drawn designs by artist VAMEEE.
ICEBERG’s partnership with Kailand began when one of managers Shawn Mann arranged for him to walk in the brand’s menswear Spring/Summer 2019 runway show during London Fashion Week two summers ago. He has since been featured in campaigns for the brand and co-hosted an event including the release of a co-designed t-shirt with the brand last Fall, all in benefit of the Watts Empowerment Center in Los Angeles. He now joins talented designer and ICEBERG’s Creative Director, James Long, with experience interning under Kim Jones at Dior and mentorship from Kanye West, to create the capsule collection of ready to wear and accessories.
I love Kailand’s energy and creativity! I really enjoyed working with him and creating such a fun collection together. The capsule takes Kailand’s inspiration and infuses it with the Italian ICEBERG aesthetic. I am very proud of the outcome! - James Long.
I’m really passionate about creating and bringing all my ideas to life and have spent the last two years learning and studying fashion. I was given the opportunity to go to Paris and intern with Kim Jones at Dior and am so grateful for his mentorship. Now that I have partnered with ICEBERG, it has been a true privilege to work with James Long and the entire ICEBERG family. They’ve made me feel right at home and I’m looking forward to this new journey as well as the overall future of fashion - Kailand O. Morris.
ICEBERG x Kailand O. Morris retails from January 28th to February 25th and will be available for purchase starting this July through ICEBERG e-commerce and brick and mortars, as well as select retailers worldwide.
ABOUT ICEBERG & JAMES LONG
A visionary institution founded by Giuliana Marchini Gerani and husband Silvano Gerani led to the creation of ICEBERG in 1974. ICEBERG launched a revolution that introduced a new concept of sportswear deluxe. With the arrival of the talented French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, the brand set the fashion world on fire with an all-knitwear collection inspired by Pop Art. ICEBERG kept growing in the 1990s becoming a global fashion sensation thanks to designers like Kim Jones, Marc Jacobs, Anna Sui, Dean and Dan Caten and Giambattista Valli.
Forty-five years later, ICEBERG has a new creative direction with British designer James Long who was named creative director in 2015. Known for his innovative take on traditional knitwear, Long’s designs often combine bold print, streamline silhouettes and technical fabrications. Provocative yet wearable, James Long combines an eye for style with meticulous attention to detail, all framed by his relaxed, uninhibited approach to design. ICEBERG remains true to its roots by keeping a strong position in the deluxe sportswear segment.
ABOUT KAILAND O. MORRIS
Kailand O. Morris is a model, fashion designer, philanthropist, revolutionary, and notably, son of the music legend Stevie Wonder and celebrity fashion designer Kai Milla. He is a prominent figure on Instagram where he uploads daily images of his lifestyle, family and friends, his vintage and contemporary menswear inspired fashion shoots, and runway shows he has walked in; with a few to name like Comme Des Garçons, Pyer Moss, ICEBERG, and opening Dolce & Gabbana one season and closing the season after escorting Karen Elson down the catwalk.
Kailand O. Morris also spent 3 seasons interning and learning under Dior men’s creative director Kim Jones. In addition to the mentorship given to Kailand by Kim Jones, Kailand is also receiving guidance and mentoring by Kanye West adjacent to the fashion, art, and architectural projects he is working on with Kanye West.
In addition to Kailand O. Morris’s work, he also dedicates much of his time to his philanthropic projects. Begging at around the age of 14 through the guidance of Kailand’s parents, he collaborated with Shailene Woodley, Lori Woodley, and their nonprofit All it Takes in creating an annual basketball tournament which took place on Kailand’s birthday, raising money to send less fortunate kids to a growth and learning camp. Through 4 years of partnership with All it Takes, Kailand then began to brand off into creating his own nonprofit titled KOM Worldwide. KOM Worldwide focuses on improving and helping the situations of persons who are less fortunate than others in a sustainable and eco-friendly manner. With its most recent project in collaboration with Shawn Mann one of Kailand’s managers and ICEBERG which took place at the Watts Empowerment Center CA. During this project hundreds of T-Shirts exclusively designed to the Watts Empowerment Center by Kailand O. Morris, James Long, and Kate Baum from Kailand’s team were given to the children and families of the center along with a donation to help improve the lives in the community.
Credits PH. and Contents: Press GM/PM Consulting & ICEBERG
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