On the third floor of an aging industrial building in Brooklyn you’ll find Hikerkind HQ, the design studio and sometimes event space slash pop-up shop of the women’s technical outdoor apparel brand. Here New York City’s growing population of hikers gather to meet, find the best color and fit for their bodies, and chat with founders Chelsea Rizzo and Allison Levy. It’s during these intimate drop ins when Hikerkind’s pillars of thoughtful fashion design, conscientious consumerism, and organic community converge.
And it’s on the color-coded hanging display racks in the studio—and on the Hikerkind website, of course—where lovers of good design and the great outdoors can find Hikerkind FW24 and SS24 collections of performance-driven hiking apparel in a soothing monochromatic palette. Just like the first collection released in 2021, each piece is designed to both function well on it’s own and integrate seamlessly with the rest of the collection.
But unlike the first release, garments are now categorized by outfits and intention: Trail for hiking, Performance for action, and Venture for everyday and travel.