Two custom KA-SIG 001. One belongs to a Muay Thai fighter who has never lost. The other belongs to the most-charting rapper in the history of Italy. The line between them runs from a gym in London to a fight night in Milan.
Backstage in Milan: Amro Ghanem and his corner with The Handsome Killer edition.
Amro Ghanem: The Handsome Killer
I know Amro Ghanem from my years in London. We trained together, and you learn the truth about a fighter when you share the mats with him. Amro is a Muay Thai lightweight out of Team Tieu, unbeaten as a professional, with a run of wins at Muay Thai Grand Prix in London. He fights clean, patient and precise, and he looks the part; the ring name says it all.
When he wanted a KA-SIG 001, it was made for him. And because a name like The Handsome Killer deserves more than one piece, I designed an exclusive The Handsome Killer T-shirt edition around it: the title in heavy blackletter across the back, the KOLJA ANNUSSEK wordmark along the hem. A fight shirt that works far from the ring. In Milan, the whole corner wore it.
Sfera Ebbasta: Milan, fight night
I met Sfera Ebbasta at a fight in Milan. If you do not know the name, Italy does: Gionata Boschetti, from Cinisello Balsamo, is the rapper who took Italian trap from YouTube to the top of the charts, the best-selling artist in the country for a decade and the holder of the record for the most number-one singles in Italian chart history, with collaborations from Future to J Balvin. He is also one of the most closely watched dressers in European rap.
He has a custom KA-SIG 001 of his own. Fight night is where the worlds KOLJA ANNUSSEK comes from meet: the ring, the music, the clothes. It is no accident that the two people in this story crossed paths there.
The KA-SIG 001
The KA-SIG 001 is the first piece in the KOLJA ANNUSSEK signature series. Every one is custom: cut for the person, hand-finished with genuine python leather, numbered, one of one, with your own name in the python patch on the back if you want it. A fighter and a rapper, the same piece, each one theirs alone.
The KA family
Amro and Sfera join the circle of people who wear the signature series because they wanted it: Riyadh Al-Azzawi in London, DJ Antoine on stage, Itsbizkit in New York, Olesya Malinskaya in Sochi, Jeff Hamilton in Los Angeles. No sponsorships, no contracts.
See the signature series in Paris
The KA-SIG series, the leather pieces including the KA Baller, and the project work from New York and Los Angeles are on view in the KOLJA ANNUSSEK private showroom in Paris, by appointment only. Custom pieces are made to order; a piece bought in the showroom is final.
Book your visit at koljaannussek.com/contact or write to vip@koljaannussek.com. You can also reach us directly on WhatsApp.
Private Showroom Paris. By appointment only.
