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LEGENDmag Interviews Keep Company’s Una Kim

By Ernie | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment


Una Kim interview with LEGENDmagMy good friend kc! is one of the guys behind LEGENDmag, a magazine devoted to independent culture and living. Their latest issue features an interview with Una Kim, who worked in marketing, branding and trend forecasting in NYC before becoming co-founder of Keep Company, a skateboarding inspired, cruelty-free shoe brand. You can read the entire interview at LEGENDmag’s blog, or learn about how she formed the company from a recent video from WRG? magazine:

If you look at a lot of companies, there’s a men’s line and a women’s line, and a lot of times the way that they differentiate those two lines are totally whack; it’s really indicative of what those companies think women are, and we’re totally not into those bubbly shoes, the clown shoes, the weird pink shoes that totally misappropriate that beautiful color…

It’s always refreshing to hear about Asian Americans in the “indie scene,” whatever you define that to be. It’s also refreshing to hear the words “whack,” “indicative,” “misappropriate” and “clown shoes” in the same sentence as well.

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1 Comment to “LEGENDmag Interviews Keep Company’s Una Kim”

  • kc! wrote:

    Thanks for the link Ernie! Indie is, as indie does… and Una Kim is a powerhouse!! The best thing about LEGENDmag is that we get to highlight such talented tastemakers as she. :)

    Posted on 24-Apr-09 at 11:32 am | Permalink

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