Khaite

Khaite is a New York womenswear and accessories label founded in 2016 by Catherine Holstein. It has become a major reference for contemporary American luxury by refining wardrobe staples—denim, knitwear, coats, leather, boots, tailoring and evening pieces—into a darker, more cinematic version of everyday dressing. The brand’s rise belongs to the renewed appetite for polished minimalism, though Khaite is more tactile and dramatic than that label suggests.

Its collections often work through contrast: softness and structure, exposure and protection, nostalgia and severity. Commercially, it has moved from wholesale momentum into retail and investment-backed expansion while remaining strongly identified with Holstein’s authorship. Khaite’s place in post-2010 American fashion comes from turning restraint, materials and atmosphere into a recognisable luxury proposition.

Khaite rests on tension. The brand uses familiar American categories—jeans, cashmere sweaters, trench coats, leather jackets, slip dresses, boots—and gives them weight through fabric, proportion and mood. Holstein often places softness beside hardness: fluid dresses with heavy belts, delicate knits against leather, bare skin under large coats, or classic denim styled with exacting polish.

The result is not pure minimalism; the clothes carry memory, seduction and unease as much as restraint. Khaite makes essentials feel charged through luxury materials and subtle construction, producing a visual world that is cinematic, shadowed and oriented towards women who want clothing to feel protective and exposed at once.