K-Swiss, Inc. 's an American footwear company based in Westlake Village, CA. They design, develop, and market a range of athletic shoes under the K-Swiss brand and its wholly owned subsidiary Royal Elastics, Inc. History K-Swiss was founded in 1966 in Los Angeles, California, by two Swiss brothers who became interested in tennis after immigrating to the United States, where they introduced the first leather tennis shoes. In 1986 Steven Nichols, while working at Stride Rite, was so impressed w… (More on K-swiss)