Khaite, Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Photo by Hunter Abrams
Since staging its first runway show in 2019, Catherine Holstein’s KHAITE has become one of the hottest tickets at New York Fashion Week. Last night, Katherine showed one of her strongest collections yet, proving that she has her pulse on the moment’s mood.
Khaite Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Photo Courtesy of Khaite
Holstein’s polished approach to closet staples and her ability to elevate the everyday modern wardrobe garnered her two back-to-back CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year Awards in 2022 and 2023. However, as evidenced on Saturday evening, Holstein is not content to rest on her laurels.
Khaite Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Photo by Hunter Abrams
Catherine continues to re-imagine archetypal American style through a timeless design lens and evolve her KHAITE-ims: exceptional materials, expert craftsmanship, and the deft mixing of opposing elements: masculine and feminine, strong and soft, structure and fluid.
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Catherine considers herself a downtown girl. Holstein opened her first store in Soho but recently added a shop on Madison Avenue and 69th Street. The push and pull between uptown and downtown is always very evident within Holstein’s well-thought-out, versatile designs.
Khaite Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Photo Courtesy of Khaite
KHAITE’s fall 2025 ready-to-wear collection is effortlessly ‘cool,’ wearable, and desirable. Instead of sequins and beads, there’s Japanese denim, cashmere, double-face wool, leather, and snakeskin. These are not precious, special-occasion clothes for the red carpet—unless you want to consider them the red carpet of your life.
Khaite Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Photo Courtesy of Khaite
The clothes are polished and urbane but with a certain rawness thanks to deconstruction techniques and asymmetry. There is a palpable sensuality. Holstein reinvented sexy for the urbane warrior. Catherine proposes a variety of lengths, proportions, shapes, and silhouettes. They all work.
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Holstein’s chunky knitwear and outerwear are always sensational. There are sculptural leathers with an armor-like feel, sensational shearlings (cropped and almost to the floor), double-face blanket coats, and, new this season, a fierce leopard print.
Khaite Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Photo Courtesy of Khaite
No jewelry is needed. Accessories include newsboy caps, which impart a streetwise Parisian attitude (think Saint Laurent), long leather gloves, which add elegance, and an array of great bags and footwear, some heeled, some flat.
Khaite Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Photo Courtesy of Khaite
The models had swagger as they walked the dramatic circular runway, their hands thrust in the pockets of their perfectly cut jeans and trousers, their legs encased in pancake flat thigh-high equestrian-style boots.
They not only looked great, but they also looked comfortable, confident, and ready to brave the elements, pound the pavement, or run errands around town.’
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