“I’m sorry I didn’t catch that; can you repeat the question?” says Lakisha Robinson, turning her face from the screen of her iPod. The 22-year-old rapper, who goes by the name Kilo Kish, doesn’t usually daydream to music with anything quite as hi-tech—or high-luxe (they're $1,250)—as Dolce & Gabbana’s new handcrafted headphones, a collaborative effort with New York audio wizards Grado, set to drop early next year. In fact, she wrote the majority of her EP Homeschool, an endearing scrapbook of softly spoken rhymes, with a pair of lo-fi ear buds, scrolling through beats on her laptop from the comfort of her living room in Brooklyn. As well as having the requisite noise-canceling capabilities and crystalline sound, the new headset road-tests pretty well in the cuteness department. “I like that they’re made with mahogany,” says Cachee Livingston (better known as Kitty-Cash), Robinson’s DJ and best friend. “I would wear these onstage with an Alexander Wang leather jacket.”
The pair met at Fashion Institute of Technology, where Robinson was studying textile design, and they have been performing together since graduating this summer. “I wasn’t wearing a nice shirt to screen-print all over my clothes,” says Robinson who describes her minimalist style as art school–inspired. “I’m pretty simple.” As a girl who likes to boil her wardrobe down to black basics, the headphones make for an attention-grabbing accessory. “I actually imagine myself curled up on the sofa at home with these on,” she says. “They’re far too nice to wear on the subway.”
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