The collection is an exploration of gender-fluidity, LGBTQIA+ and subculture in cyberpunk. Key and Jarno have created a cyberpunk storyline with characters from POSE, a drama series about LGBTQ and the gender-nonconforming ballroom culture, and RuPaul's Drag Race.
1. CYBER Elektra BITCH
A transgender government leader and a drug cartel chief who care only about money and power and love chaos and pain.
2. CYBER Plastique Guuuurllll
A beautiful humanoid sex robot which possesses a micro-chip containing data of impeccable sex skills.
3. CYBER Detox GENDERFUCK
An alien killer in “genderfuck” style, employed by Elektra to kill Plastique to protect the future of humanity.
Key Chow was born in Hong Kong and graduated from the Royal College of Art in London with a Master’s degree in Fashion Menswear in 2015 supported by the scholarship from the DFA Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award. He is working in J.W. Anderson. His graduate collection was a finalist of the H&M Design Award.
Finland-born Jarno Leppanen, with a cross-artistic background and a Master’s degree in Arts, translates the label’s unique design language into poetic visuals, films, performance and various projects. The duo co-founded London-based gender-fluid label, KA WA KEY.
Jarno Leppanen來自芬蘭，擁有藝術碩士學位並涉足跨藝術界別，將品牌的獨特設計轉化成不同的視覺媒體、影片、行為藝術等項目。兩人於倫敦成立時裝品牌 KA WA KEY，重新探索和挑戰性別身份。
KA WA KEY, a London-based gender-fluid label, thinks “twink” and reimagines traditional textile crafts with sustainable materials to rework everyday casualwear with the designers’ roots in Asian and Scandinavian aesthetics.
KA WA KEY’s works have been featured in London Fashion Week Men’s, Paris Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week and Labelhood in Shanghai Fashion Week sponsored by GQ China. They represented London menswear at London Show ROOMS in Paris Fashion Week Men’s. KA WA KEY was nominated as a semi-finalists of the International Woolmark Prize.
The brand works towards sustainable and ethical fashion from material sourcing to design innovation to production.
KA WA KEY以「Twink」精神來重新探索和挑戰性別身份，以亞洲和北歐的感性美學，用傳統紡織手藝、環保和具可持續性的物料與最新服裝技術來重新演繹日常針織和休閒時裝。
KA WA KEY曾踏足倫敦男裝周、紐約時裝周、巴黎時裝周及上海時裝周Labelhood的舞台，並曾代表倫敦在巴黎男裝周的London Show ROOMS展出作品。品牌曾入選「國際羊毛標誌大奬」準決賽。