How did you first develop an colours and the designs , they
interest in fashion industry?
were just so different and unique.
From then on I became more
Amie: My first taste of the interested in fashion as I started
fashion industry came from my learning about different styles of
mum. She was a young mother fashions from around the world I
and absolutely stunning with became very inspired.
a particularly elegant taste in
fashion. Although we didn’t have What made you want to create
a lot of money growing up, she your own label?
always managed to be creative
with her clothing. Always elegant, Amie: I’ve worked as a model
on-trend and risque. People for the majority of my adult life
always stared at her in the street and in doing so, I found my taste
and gave her compliments. She in fashion evolving past what
would never leave the house has been made available to the
without making sure my sister and every day consumer. I struggled
I, as well as herself, looked at our to find clothing that represented
absolute best. My mother became my tastes and was affordable and
something of a fashion icon to readily available. I applaud our
me, with much of her wardrobe international ‘monarch’ designers
still leaving me envious.
that create such beautiful and
inspirational clothing, however
Kamilla: My taste in fashion at the current pricing available,
has always been very out there it was always unrealistic of me to
whether it be classy and elegant believe I would ever manage to
to edgy and bold. I have always own more then a few statement
dressed to stand out because pieces over a lifetime, I did not
fashion has always been apart of initially conspire to to create my
my life. My father is Indian and own label. It started with a deep
mother is Samoan. We grew up in desire to create the sort of clothing
a very multicultural environment. I liked, for myself. One day
We also use to live in Nz so cold Kamilla and I were discussing the
weather was my favourite because finer points of designing clothing
I loved wearing big coats and big we liked for ourselves. Things
boots. Nothing has changed there like, ‘I like this design except
ha ha. My mum would always the skirt is too long’, ‘I would
dress us girls up in Indian/ cut this here’, ‘I would use this
Samoan outfits for occasions fabric’. This quickly turned into
with the whole family. I loved the me pulling out a sketch pad and
from there we started designing
and sketching pieces. Once the
designs hit paper, there was really
no going back.
Kamilla: It’s something that every
young girl dreams of, having her
own fashion label. Amie and I go
shopping together, whenever we
see a piece of clothing we have
to show the other. We practically
share each others wardrobes as
well! So wanting to create our
own fashion label was something
that we both dreamed of really.
And then one day we literally just
said, ok let’s do it. Lets make our
own clothes. And so it went from
there.
What inspired the name Kill
Casey?
Amie: It’s very unusual isn’t it?
We’ve had a varied response from
everyone who’s had contact with
the name so far. All agreeing that
its very catchy, but very different.
Kamilla and I had a lot of trouble
initially coming up with a
name. We wanted something
catchy, edgy and something that
represented us as a team. After
going through numerous failed
attempts we decided to play with
a combination of our names.
One day I was completing some
random task when the name just
came to me. I texted Kamilla
and received an instantaneous