SPIRITUAL CHIC
Dancer-turned-fashion-designer David Lee of KD dance wants everyone to slow down, breathe, stretch, dance, relax, and always feel beautiful.
The former dancer has made getting dressed to practice your dance, yoga or Pilates moves a (long-overdue) unique kind of chic. That’s exactly what attracts style hunters for Hollywood movies and fashion magazines like German Vogue to KD dance in New York.
Jennifer Lopez knows, featuring KD dance designs in her 2004 movie, "Shall We Dance." You’ll see that the designs made by KD dance don’t cling to your body; your body clings to them.
Once you wear one of the deliberately-and-exquisitely-thin sweater knits for yogis and dancers, you will realize that feeling beautiful in anything made by KD dance is easy to do, whether it’s a pair of capri tights with a waist that folds into a super-wide bandeau for a flattering two-layer look or a timeless top that wraps around your body as glamorously as a red carpet-ready design.
The designs were first created by Lee and his partner Tricia Kaye in the San Francisco Bay Area where they danced professionally using an approach no one had ever seen before. The inventive knit that Lee and Kaye came up with was the beginning of a new kind of comfortable that hugs the body in a way no other clothing ever could.
As dancers, creating beautiful silhouettes that work with the body came naturally. KD dance designs honor every inch of the natural body aesthetic. The first designs were created for dancers, but that changed when Lee was dancing for the Oakland Ballet in 1980. He and fellow dancer, Rodney Yee, took their first yoga class. The experience was so profound that Lee began creating designs with yoga in mind, too.
KD dance is now based in New York, with its own retail store in that opened in NoHo in 1996. The line of fashions for dance, yoga, and spa remains its own genre that doesn’t look or feel like anything else out there.
KD dance designs are available through the company’s New York store in NoHo at Lafayette and Bleecker, the company web site www.kddance.com, and selected retailers worldwide. Contact us info@kddance.com or (800) 443-1371.