K-Way

K-WAY a FRENCH CREATION

Its English-sounding name has often made us forget its Ch'ti origins. The nylon banana pouch that transforms into a brightly-colored windbreaker was in fact the brainchild of Léon-Claude Duhamel, son of a textile industrialist from Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Red, yellow, blue and green were thus introduced into the drab wardrobes of French people who hadn't yet opted for the boldness and freedom of the sixties.