Welcome. You’ve officially landed on Planet Kuntron.

Meet Foxxi Kill Na Na, also known as Cyncir Foxxi Pollard, a Las Vegas-raised fashion designer. Now residing in Los Angeles, Pollard is the creator of the fashion brand KILLNANA.

The founder of KILLNANA began her design career sixteen years ago, creating unique paper dolls. However, it was eight years ago when she started sewing. Describing her journey as “homegrown,” Foxxi’s mother nurtured the passion that consumed her. They would hand sew together, teaching her to embellish and upcycle their accessories. She was twelve when her mother gifted her a sewing machine for Christmas. They learned how to use the machine together by watching Mimi G Style’s sewing tutorials from the comfort of their North Las Vegas home. Foxxi describes this nostalgic time as fun, thrifting Simplicity sewing patterns and creating head-to-toe ensembles for her mother.

Pollard attended Southwest Career and Technical Academy for high school, where she enrolled in the Fashion Design program. She then attended FIDM, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, where she obtained not one but two associate's degrees, in addition to her bachelor’s. Foxxi now wants to return to a more authentic “way of creating after so many years of being formally taught in school.”

The KILLNANA designer describes her style and designs as “cyber-ghetto.” “I love Afro-futurism and streetwear and blending both of those things. I also love mixing in fantasy, cartoony elements.” Foxxi compares it to dressing up a video game avatar. “All of my designs are characters on the planet in my mind. Planet Kuntron. All of the characters are little bits and pieces of myself.”

Imagining herself as the customer, Foxxi draws inspiration from her everyday life experience because it feels the most authentic. However, she is “starting to take more inspiration from the world, communities, and people around” her, expressing excitement about "representing and sharing love and admiration for them all creatively.”

The opening dress to Foxxi Kill Na Na’s debut collection holds a special place in her heart. Recounting it as a tribute to their younger self, Foxxi refers to it as a piece she would wear in all her forms. “I used to call myself a tomgirl before I knew the rhetoric to express my gender properly. So, I decided to airbrush it across the front of the dress. It’s me if I turned into a dress.”

“Taking advice and asking for help is one thing, but don’t let anyone sway your stance on your art”

— Cyncir Foxxi Pollard

As a black trans woman in the fashion and entertainment industry, Foxxi wants to remind her audience to trust themselves wholeheartedly. “Taking advice and asking for help is one thing, but don’t let anyone sway your stance on your art.” When creating her debut collection, Foxxi was met with skepticism from mentors who questioned her talent and thought she couldn’t succeed. “I trusted myself, my instincts, and my vision and proved them all wrong.”

Spirituality is important to Foxxi. It has shaped her as a designer, and she describes it as “one of the things that connects” her to a “higher self.” Design has become a form of meditation, a grounding experience connecting her to her roots.

Along with fashion, the multifaceted creative that is Foxxi is looking to enter other artistic spaces. From creative directing to film and animation, Foxxi wants to have it all. She is also pursuing music and “learning the ways to blend that with fashion and turn collections into something listenable.” Merging all aspects in a world built solely by herself, she is currently soundscaping Planet Kuntron.

Foxxi is in the beginning stages of a sophomore collection for KILLNANA, but first, the designer will release a soundtrack to accompany her debut collection on April 20th. “It will be something for the dolls, something to dance to, something for the girls who make falling look like flying.”

As for the future of Foxxi and her creative endeavors, she plans to have completed three more collections and soundtracks to coincide with each of them within the next five years. With this, she sees herself as the costume designer for a major blockbuster only after releasing her editorial film. “I see myself as an innovator who brings new things to fashion, doing things that have never been done before, becoming the first of my kind in the realm of fashion.”

Foxxi envisions the future of fashion as one without trends. “Individualism and pure avatar customization are the future.” Fashion will be a time of finding one’s uniqueness and expressing it outwardly.

Foxxi proclaims art and fashion as “the only universal languages. “They communicate so much about who we are and where we come from, even where we’re heading. You know who I am, and I know who you are based on what we all wear.” Through the expression of creativity, the world will find support and community in the most “unexpected ways,” motivating those to “follow their dreams and live their lives.”

The future empire of Planet Kuntron is a bright one. Foxxi Kill Na Na is and will continue to break barriers in the artistic realm that the world has yet to see. Her individualistic, spiritualistic, and futuristic qualities will set the fashion industry on fire, inspiring the rest of society to step into their true selves.

Thank you for climbing aboard. This is Tamarah signing off.

A special thanks to Foxxi for allowing me to share her story. Check out the rest of her debut collection for KILLNANA below.

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