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Kene Kaya was one of five designers selected by Everlast for their first-ever Emerging Designer Capsule Competition, a global initiative to collaborate with rising design talent. Through this program, Kene Kaya partnered with Everlast, the iconic athletic brand founded in 1910, to co-create a capsule collection merging the brand’s century-long heritage in boxing and athletic performance with contemporary cultural design.

“This collaboration was deeply aligned with our values,” said Alessandra Durand, founder of Kene Kaya. “Everlast represents strength, resilience, and dedication—qualities I see reflected in the Shipibo-Conibo women I work with. Through this capsule, we bring ancestral art into dialogue with a global athletic platform, celebrating both cultural authorship and the legacy of champions.”

For the collaboration, Kene Kaya reinterpreted vintage-inspired athletic wear alongside hand-painted and beaded boxing gloves, incorporating the ancestral visual language of Shipibo-Conibo Kene art from the Peruvian Amazon. These pieces were created in collaboration with Olinda Silvano and her son Ronin Koshi, a mother-and-son duo of artists and activists from the Shipibo-Conibo migrant community of Cantagallo, Lima, emphasizing cultural authorship, continuity, and activism through art.

ARTIST- Ronin Koshi

ARTIST-Olinda Silvano

Founded by Peruvian designer Alessandra Durand, Kene Kaya operates as a luxury fashion brand and social enterprise, working in long-term partnership with Indigenous artisan communities. Through this collaboration, Kene Kaya introduced its design approach and cultural perspective to a global athleticwear platform, demonstrating how ancestral art can intersect with contemporary performance and fashion narratives.