Kate Young and Quince launch a polished Euro-summer capsule

Quince is leaning hard into the kind of wardrobe editing shoppers actually want: polished, travel-ready and not priced like a fantasy. Its new capsule with stylist Kate Young pairs Euro-summer ease with the brand’s factory-direct promise, translating linen, cashmere, silk and leather into pieces that feel styled, not overworked.

The collection appears on Quince’s site as The Vacation Capsule | Styled by Kate Young and spans 46 items in the U.S. assortment. At the bottom end is a $16 Cotton Modal Double Scoop Neck Tank; at the top is a $1,450 14K Gold Bold Bangle. In between, the mix gets more pointedly vacation-minded: a Mongolian Shrunken Cashmere Sweatshirt at $69.90, a Carry-On Suitcase at $129.90, an Expandable Small Carry-On Suitcase at $139.90, wide-leg linen pants and ballet flats. The range is the story. Quince is not selling one perfect outfit. It is selling the feeling that an entire trip wardrobe can be assembled from a single cart.

That positioning works because Young brings real fashion authority to the shortcut. A New York-based stylist whose career began at Vogue, she has also worked at Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, i-D, Numéro Japan, InStyle and Vanity Fair, and has dressed Scarlett Johansson, Dakota Johnson, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Selena Gomez, Margot Robbie and Sienna Miller. WWD said she has spent more than two decades crafting celebrity looks and named her its 2025 Style Award winner for Best Stylist, the kind of credential that makes a capsule like this feel curated rather than merely branded.

Quince knows exactly what it is buying with Young’s name. The company has built its business on affordable essentials through a factory-direct model, with premium materials such as Mongolian cashmere, Italian leather, Turkish cotton and washable silk doing the heavy lifting. Dakota Kate Isaacs, Quince’s head of brand strategy and narrative, summed up the fit plainly, saying Young "thinks like a stylist but edits like a traveler." That line captures the appeal: aspirational enough to sell the dream, practical enough to justify the spend.

The Canada version of the capsule, with 38 items and higher local pricing, underscores how tightly Quince is packaging the same formula for different markets. What resonates here is not just the Euro-summer mood, but the idea that designer-adjacent polish can be translated into a checkout experience that feels accessible. Quince is betting that shoppers want the look of a very well-packed trip, without the luxury markup attached.