About
Khenti is a streetwear clothing business that provides functional, high-quality, unique clothes for anyone to wear. Founded by Asani Ka-Re, a young designer from the Richmond, Virginia area, Khenti creates comfortable products with sustainability and innovation in mind.
This brand is for everyone, but our logo takes inspiration from Asani’s afrocentric family culture. The patterns, masks, and elements of the brand reference sights in Africa and include references to Black culture. Khenti is also Asani’s middle name and means “she who offers.”
Our Founder
Asani Ka-Re, the founder of Khenti, launched her original business in 2016 when she was eight years old. She created scrunchies and sewed them with her godmother. Asani’s brother was the main person who got her into fashion. She fell in love with fashion and wanted to pursue her passion for it. Asani eventually changed product lines and decided to create a fashion collection. In 2020, she launched Khenti.
Quality Streetwear Fabrics for Sensitive Skin
Our founder had extremely sensitive skin growing up and had to be careful with certain soaps and lotions. She also had some personal insecurity about how her skin looked and felt, and felt like she couldn’t wear cute things because they would irritate her skin. Asani realized that certain fashion trends were not accessible to her or people like her because a lot of streetwear brands don’t focus on clothing or collections suitable for sensitive skin.
For example, certain denims had harsh fabrics that can create bumps or dryness after wearing. To be cute, Asani found she had to layer up with protective pieces that would keep her skin from being in contact with harsh fabrics.
Through Khenti, Asani wants to shine a light on how having sensitive skin limits what kinds of fabrics people can wear. By knowing what to shop for and what materials are more friendly to sensitive skin, Khenti fashions are pieces that anyone can wear without having to do a lot extra to be comfortable before you can put on your outfit.
Business Resume
- Asani has designed and sold products at yearly Market Days since 2015 through Girls For A Change, a Richmond area program focused on Black girls
- Asani was in the GFAC Immersion Lab in 2022
- Teen Stylin’ 2022 – Asani participated in this program at the VMFA. The program assigned an artifact that participants had use for inspiration. The designers had to create a clothing piece out of upcycled items. This program was a catalyst for learning more about sustainability in fashion.
- Girl Ambassador Internships – elevation, Verdalina
- Pitch Competitions – Capital One, da Vinci Center
- current entrepreneurship program in high school
- 2023 School of New York Times Camp – Fashion, Film & Photography – history, fast fashion, how to launch a fashion brand, created our own fashion brand in a group – Indigo Haven, logistics, manufacturing, trademarks, copyrights and patents