Clothing designer Kiko Kostadinov is pictured here in his new Los Angeles store. Together with a Levi’s collaboration and a growing international presence, he is building that rarest thing in fashion: an independent, family-run empire. Photo: The New York Times
In the past year, fashion designer Kiko Kostadinov began to feel that everyone wanted to talk about one thing: money.
Journalists, store owners, employees in his studio – every conversation became about who was succeeding, whose finances are slipping, what mergers are bubbling out there. In short, who was winning.
