To celebrate the release of our “Freshmen Swagger“ pack, we are giving away five t-shirts via our Facebook page! Simply click like or hit the comment section of our photo album there if you want your own “Freshmen” profile pic. Your picture will be added to the album. Winners will be chosen among all entries.

Our K1X “Authentic Pack” is back with a vengeance, as we continue to build this unique offering to work around everything in your closet. Downbeat designs, subtle logo placements, premium quality materials and dope cuts make up the “Authentic“ formula. New check shirts, hoodies, crewnecks and sweatpants in stock now. The line is highlighted by our brand new Authentic Varsity Jacket – like Sade it‘s one smooth operator.

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Fashion bible Sportswear International paid a visit to our new K1X NYC flagship store in SoHo and has published a detailed review in the latest issue of the mag. Make sure to pay a visit yourself should you be in town and say wassup to store manager Benji and his crew, who are holding it down for the Nation of Hoop in the Big Apple.

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Statik Selektah and Termanology (1982) recently toured Europe with the homey Reks to promote Statik’s latest release “Population Control”. Even while on tour, they made sure they hit the studio and record! The result of this very session is called “Play Your Role”. Song and video recorded in Sweden (Mahalo Studio) in less than 45 min.

Statik Selektah is wearing our K1X At large tag hoody while Reks is wearing our K1X MTP zipper hoody.

How did K1X get started? What’s our inspiration? What’s in the pipeline? Go behind the scenes of K1X with Papa Neil & Tom Breezy in this interview with SneakerFreaker.

Our buddy Promise Smith (Head of Super Arts Group Black Angels NYC) works behind the scenes undertaking a wide variety of assignments in the field of visual media: casting, set design, wardrobe, and art direction for film and music videos. She’s worked with an array of artists including Kanye West, Jay – Z, Ashley Simpson and N.E.R.D. She can currently be seen making a cameo in Brian Wood’s Panty Raider video Also, she’s really cool. Thanks for lookin’ out, Promise!

The Chris Herren Story. Real talk from a basketball junkie come clean. We are very happy to see this former K1X warrior back on track. Great read, great guy. Merry X-Mas!

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It was the man himself who tweeted this image of himself and his crew in front of the Eiffel Tower the other day (“Got my ni**as is Paris. For real.”). And since Paris is the fashion capital of the world, J. Cole opted to go for our MTP Zipper Hoody, which he picked up a couple of days earlier in Berlin, the previous stop of his “Cole World” tour. Good looking out J!

Shout out to the Russian people! Remember: It ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings. In fact, things are just getting started…
(Images: Okonek Magazine)

Meet the newest boot silhouette by K1X. The Kennebunkport features high premium full grain leather as well as our newly designed outsole. Available in coffeebean/black or brown/grey, 99,90 €.

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Twenty years ago, basketball changed forever. Never before had hip hop culture left such an obvious footprint in the clean and wholesome world of college sports. It was a display of unbridled confidence and an aggressive in-your-face attitude. The extra baggy shorts, the black socks and bald heads. More trash than Middle America could take. You either loved these guys – or hated them. As you may guess, K1X (est. in 1993) loved them for personifying “swagger” to perfection. And K1X was very much inspired by this early blend of basketball and hip hop, a mixture which remains a main ingredient of most K1X designs to this day. The “Freshmen Swagger” pack is out now!

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K1Xclusive Fall/Winter 2011/12 just hit stores with 3 dazzling packs. In the following weeks we will give you a closer look at the most outstanding K1Xclusive pushers. To kick things off, we want to give a big shout-out to Thomas & Marc from OVERKILL. Homeboys made sure you cant miss K1X these days in their online shop. Bigup guys, way to play hard!

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Due to the lively response to the Decade Pack in Spring 2011, K1Xclusive is back for an encore this fall: The „Decade Lining Pack“

While the special feature of the original spring series had been the lack of inner lining, the fall 2011 series will present the 80s and 90s silhouettes with a solid inner lining and durable full-grain leather, making the construction more resilient. Both the 80s and 90s silhouette come in black grain leather, white outsoles and a pop of cyan blue on the heel loops.

Make sure to peep more photos after the jump! Photo credit: Nady El-Tounsy

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20 years in the making. Out today…

Limited units, exclusively available at the K1X flagship store in NYC (Lafayette Street, SoHo).

Premium street- and sportswear retailer Snipes has been a great K1X ally for many years. That’s why we are extremely proud to announce this limited edition collaboration featuring two fresh color ways (grey/x-red and brown/blue) of our new boot-sneaker hybrid “State” – as well as a matching snap back cap by New Era. The State is a unique silhouette, half boot, half sneaker, which has made brow-raising headlines lately, including Hypebeast, Complex Magazine and SneakerFreaker. Both sneaker/boot and cap boast the trademark K1X crest logo and are exclusively available at all 41 Snipes doors (in Germany and Austria) as well as Snipesshop.de and the K1X flagship store in NYC.

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Sometimes a good bootleg is like a medal. Shout out the Lion Base Massive in Freetown, Sierra Leone!

Got a clue?

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K1Xclusive Fall/Winter 2011/12 proudly presents: The Mask Pack by K1X. Centerpiece of the pack is the iconic mask design, which was introduced in our “Baloncesto“ collection (fall 2010). The mask is a nifty hybrid that blends together a basketball and a Mexican wrestling mask. That in itself illustrates what our basketball inspired streetwear label is all about: “Play Hard – don‘t embarrass our products!“

The DCAC Mask Pack consists of two versions of our classic DCAC silhouette, boasting high-end suede leather in sand/sand and grey/grey. The pack is topped off by a slick grey (heather) crewneck that features the mask logo in a black water-based chest print.

Photo credit: Nady El-Tounsy

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