Fashion With A Conscience

339 Lafayette St. at Bleecker
New York, NY 10012
212-533-1738
www.kddance.com
Hours of Operation: Monday-Saturday, 12pm-8pm

30 Years of Looks That Will Not Quit

When started in 1980 as a clothing line for dancers attracted the usual suspects, people who aren’t dancers but have a radar for clothes that will be just as chic in 20 years as much as the day they buy them: European women, Vogue magazine, Hollywood stylists and celebrities.

In 1980, yarn spinners tell them it’s unheard of.  West coast dancers-turned-fashion designers David Lee and Tricia Kaye invent a new kind of comfortable using the lightest yarn they can find.  The line of the body-loving looks becomes its own genre that doesn’t look or feel like anything else out there.

In 1983, the designers leave the Bay Area and move the clothing line, kd dids, to New York.  They commit to producing their line exculsively in the United States and set up their own factory in the Bronx.

This year, the shoulder-baring top that went platinum when it appeared in Vogue turns 30.  kd dids and kd dance celebrate their 30th anniversary with a new release of the “03″, the third design first created in 1980 that remains the best-selling top for the past 30 years, in organic cotton and vegetable cashmere.

             kd dance’s BLOW-OUT sale at their store
    Monday, July 19th – Monday, August 16th