When it was created in 2013, our ISAKIN brand, with its strong street culture, mainly offered t-shirts. Before expanding our collections over the years, we welcomed other brands that shared our values, such as OLOW. What could be more natural today than this (second) collaboration?
See here the first collab with Olow.
Creativity and the artistic world being part of our common DNA, we were inspired by the work of artist KAY ONE* to create this wool sweater.
*Brendan “Kay One” Backmann is part of the first wave of Parisian graffiti artists. In 1985, at the age of 15, he began painting in the streets of the French capital, regularly collaborating with other artists such as Mode 2, Bando and the famous NTM crew.
Always in search of the underground avant-garde and invited to England by Judy Blame, punk iconoclast, he left for London in 1993. There he rubbed shoulders with fashion designers such as Blame and Hardy Blechman, creator of the London brand of Maharishi clothing. They influenced his search for the essential, which he applied to his own creative work while continuing to busk and DJ in the hip clubs of Mayfair.
The year 2001 marked an artistic turning point in his productions: back in Paris, he distorted the letters and deconstructed the elements of graffiti into a form of abstraction. In his workshop located in the heart of the Saint-Ouen flea market, he develops the application of his graphics to the design of objects and different layout paths on the walls. He also attaches great importance to the influence of color psychology on human activity, which continually inspires his work.
Working in a workshop does not prevent him from continuing to invest the street which continues to fascinate him, as always: His attraction to mural paintings, accessible to the public, is always a real quest, a desire to re-humanize urban spaces and to beautify soulless environments. 
Black and gray wool sweater available from S to XXL in limited edition
Wall painted by Kay One in front of the Isakin boutique, rue André del Sarte - Paris 18
The artist Kay One and the creator of Isakin, Thomas Traoré
