Khaite F/W 2025.26 New York

[Vertefeuille]

Anyone have a link to the khaite show notes? Can't find any showgoers who posted them this season...they add a lot to the images

 

[jeremydante]

Loved the energy and casting. Collection hits hard for me, it's very chic; but it takes the right eye and the right girl to rock it.

 

[proseccotabis]

Was ready to trash it because of the old money tactic but I have to admit… it was stunning. In a non pretentious kind of way, very straightforward and easy, any of us can wear it, whatever the size or the height and so on, for example. The music was great too. Yes, tired of the beige / black mono looks but it was relaxing to look at without actively get my brain working

 

[rowjellies]

Curious if this is the most expensive show in New York to produce currently.

The budgets they’re working with seems to be higher than even Tory or Kors.

 

[LadyJunon]

Curious if this is the most expensive show in New York to produce currently.

The budgets they’re working with seems to be higher than even Tory or Kors.

I doubt it. Both TB and MK's show are produced by Betak (who also does Dior, YSL, Gucci, BV, etc), while Khaite's shows are done by a smaller company called Prodject. On top of that, the set designs are done by her architect husband.

 

[StylishCynic]

Rachel Tashjin at the Washington Post is finally one of the only critics to grade Khaite for what it is:

Khaite may be the name that many customers see as the closest ally to the Row, and its stores are some of the best in the luxury business, but Catherine Holstein’s aesthetic is really a pale and pretentious imitation, shown in self-serious settings. This season was a UFO-like huge glowing circle. (“Take me to your leaderrrrr,” the show cooed, and pointed a long, spindly finger at the Row.) Pretentiousness can be extremely cool, but the clothes don’t have the intellectual heft to justify all that moody hoopla. It’s just a rerun of last season’s runway hits: Loewe leather and Saint Laurent snarl, with some weird newsboy caps pulled down to a Leonardo DiCaprio or Melania Trump face-shading angle.

I watched a model walk around the ring in a ridiculously unflattering knit skirt (recalling Loewe’s recent forays into comically jumbo knitting, without the punch line), several models in weird layered tube tops that made one breast look as if it were trying to escape from the body, and another in an organza dress that had a pointless flap of fabric lapping out at the butt, and thought: Why would a woman want to make other women dress like this?

Which raises another great question: Why is it swoony when the Row jots off old Comme and vintage Chanel references and corny when, say, Khaite does it? Every designer copies, including the greats: There were two simultaneous shows of Azzedine Alaïa’s vintage collections last year in Paris. You need to do it with creativity or integrity. (Or both, though one is enough.) Her references (the Massive Attack soundtrack, the recent runway look rehashing, mimicking last year’s Saint Laurent show design) are not obscure or deep enough to be cool. Take the technique or attitude or worldview of the garment, not just the surface idea. Otherwise you’re just vibe siphoning. And a lot of Khaite’s stuff is just heavy and, more important, unflattering.

 

[LadyJunon]

^Let's not act like the Olsen's "Japanese Grandma Chic" was particularly flattering or original either.

 

[rowjellies]

Rachel made totally fair points about Khaite but weird how there are double standards given to The Row, who she even admits references Comme (as well as Hermès by Margiela, Zoran, Yohji Yamamoto, vintage Prada, Carolyn Bessette etc as other posters have pointed out)…