Kaai

Kaai Contact: Ine Verhaert Helga Meersmans

Mobile: + 32 (0)3 43 58 131cell Tel: +32 (0)2 30 44 556work Email: uryyb@xnnv.rhINTERNET Website: KAAI.eu

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How it all started

KAAI was founded in 2017 in Antwerp, Belgium, by Ine Verhaert and Helga Meersmans who set out to reimagine the perfect work-life bag for the eclectic woman with exquisite style standards.

Before, the duo spent a lot of time travelling around the world. Rushing from one meeting to the next during their corporate careers. Their main companions: a laptop, a mobile phone, lots of paperwork, and women’s essentials, all stuffed into their handbags.

Desperately looking for a stylish bag to complement their active lifestyles, they knew they could do better. So they got a handle (pun intended) on their idea: creating a new bag concept for women on the go.

Capturing the ongoing energy of the city and the ever-moving water of Antwerp, KAAI (meaning ‘the quay’ in Dutch) symbolises the fluidity of modern women, going places.

By women, for women

We take inspiration from the lives and desires of successful modern women.

From in-depth interviews with active women, discussing their relationships with their bags we discovered that women are:

‣ irritated by the chaos in their fashionable but often impractical handbags,

‣ bored with the masculine looks of their workbags.

KAAI brings change by creating bags that are both functional and fashionable, feminine and fearless.

We empower women to follow their ambitions. On their terms —without compromises.

Sophisticated simplicity

Drawing inspiration from the colours and pure graphic lines of Art Deco, we reinterpret this era’s timeless allure into magically modern, minimalist handbags with forever appeal.

Both contemporary and utterly covetable, we design for a variety of occasions. From casual to formal, from day to night.

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Klaar Devillé

Tel: +32 3 22 66 158work Email: vasb@ngryvreqrivyyr.orINTERNET Shop: www.klaardeville.com Website: atelierdeville.wixsite.com

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Klaar Devillé

The brand
Design and craftsmanship can perfectly stand together. If you work with natural materials you can combine them perfectly. Even more so: Belgian designers excel at it. The luxurious line of bags by Klaar Devillé fits perfectly within this spirit.
Bringing a new brand onto the market that stands for affordable high quality and authenticity is not an easy task. Unless you know perfectly well why.
The desire for purity, fierce elegance, quality, comfort, wearability, durability, and above all honesty, made Klaar take the step towards her own timeless and minimalistic high-end collection handmade bags.

The designer
Klaar Devillé comes from a large, artistic family of musicians, artists, and theatre-makers. Art, architecture, ballet, and theatre are what inspire her.

Klaar studied Slavic Languages and Eastern European Studies at the KULeuven and worked for several years as an analyst Eastern Europe for the Belgian State Security. When Klaar was part of a foreign security service recruitment progam in 2004, she decided to quit her job and return to her old love, fashion.
Klaar decided to study fashion design in Antwerp and maroquinerie (leatherworks) in Brussels and founded Atelier Devillé a few years later together with her husband.

Klaar is a mother of 3 and sister of award-winning theater author and director Stijn Devillé.