Levi’s launched a seven-piece capsule collection with Kiko Kostadinov last week, according to a press release on the denim brand’s website.
Prices range from $220 for a henley top to $690 for a sherpa-lined jacket, and the collection is available online through both brands’ e-commerce platforms as well as at select Levi’s retail stores and in Kiko Kostadinov’s Tokyo store, per the release. By press time, most of the collection was sold out on Levi’s e-commerce site.
The collection was teased at the London-based menswear designer’s Paris Fashion Week fall-winter 2024 mainline shows in February. It combines conceptual high-fashion aesthetics with classic 1990s Levi’s silhouettes, per the release.
Kiko Kostadinov sells on mass indie retailer SSENSE and has an ongoing footwear collaboration with Asics, which was just named the fastest-growing brand in sneaker resale in StockX’s State of Resale analysis. The partnership with Levi’s is the designer’s first foray into denim, according to the release.
The collaboration draws inspiration from the twisted side seams and darted yokes of Levi’s 1999 “Engineered Jeans” along with motifs from Kostadinov’s Bulgarian roots, per the release. Pieces include relaxed-fit denim trousers, jersey cardigans and striped henleys.
Other Levi’s collaborations this year have included capsules with McLaren Racing and anime series Gundam Seed, as well as continuing partnerships with Beams and Stüssy. A second upcoming fall-winter 2024 collaboration with JJJJound was also recently teased on Instagram.
Earlier this year, Levi Strauss & Co. CEO Michelle Gass announced “Project Fuel,” a two-year initiative designed to help the brand transition from a wholesale model to a direct-to-consumer model, which would also involve laying off between 10% and 15% of its global corporate workforce.
In the company’s recent Q2 earnings, Levi’s reported a ninth straight quarter of “robust comp growth,” in its DTC business.
