K-WAY

Its English-sounding name has often made people forget its French origins. The nylon banana pouch that turns into a brightly colored windbreaker was in fact designed by Léon-Claude Duhamel, son of a textile industrialist from Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Red, yellow, blue and green thus interfere in the dull locker room of the French. A revolution of codes and mentalities were underway, and K-Way, without knowing it, contributed to it. Iconic and modern, it was adored as much as hated in the schoolyards of the 1970s and 1980s. Becaming a collector with its tricolor closure, the K-Way ended up disappearing from France when the word entered the dictionary alongside Bic or Scotch. Twenty years later, at the dawn of the 2000s, Italian elegance fell in love with the Claude or Le Léon, the original models whose cuts were revisited. The K-Way 3.0 is tear-proof, 100% waterproof but breathable, and keeps its DNA: to protect against rain, wind and cold while being resolutely pop, whether oversized or curved.