Khaite marks 10 years with sculpted outerwear and new bags

Khaite looked like itself at full volume: sculpted outerwear, hard tailoring and lingerie references that never tipped into costume. For Resort 2027, Catherine Holstein used the brand’s 10-year milestone to do something smarter than novelty, she tightened the screws on the house codes that made Khaite matter in the first place.

That restraint is the point. Founded in 2016 and now deep into its second act, Khaite has the kind of recognizable language American luxury spends years chasing: outerwear with authority, polished but not precious tailoring, and sensual details that land as attitude rather than decoration. Resort is especially valuable in business terms because it sells for longer and travels farther, so Holstein gave it clothes that can move between climates and occasions without losing shape. The collection swung between airy getaway dressing and substantial coats, with leather jackets cut with exaggerated shoulders and cinched waists, wool coats and riding jackets tweaked just enough to feel new, and distressed leather, shearling and light technical fabrications keeping the mood sharp.

Holstein also kept leaning into the brand’s favorite tension points, masculine and feminine, polished and undone, practical and seductive. There were lace-trimmed pieces and lingerie notes, silk jersey T-shirts, hand-knit cashmere with a ’90s grunge feel, and sparse hearts-and-stars prints that read as a wink, not a theme. The best looks did what Khaite does best: they made control look effortless. That matters because the label’s appeal has always been product-first, the kind of wardrobe-building edit that feels intentional enough to justify the price and distinct enough to keep shoppers coming back for the same silhouette in a different fabric.

The accessories story was just as strategic. The Lotus bag, one of Khaite’s longest-running handbag families, now accounts for roughly 25 percent of handbag sales, a number that says everything about how brand signatures turn into revenue. Holstein pushed that family forward alongside new Blake shoulder silhouettes, while footwear widened the lane with platform boots, furry sandals and both kitten-heel and high-heel versions of key styles. This is how a house turns aesthetic consistency into authority: by letting the customer recognize the line before she reads the label.

Resort 2027 also felt like a clean continuation of Khaite’s recent run. Spring 2026 pushed denim, leather, footwear, belts, sunglasses with Oliver Peoples and cashmere as core categories, while the show itself lived in that mist-covered, cinematic Khaite universe. Resort stripped away some of the atmosphere and left the backbone exposed. Ten years in, that backbone is the brand.