KHAITE Spring Summer 2026: A Cinematic Reinvention Of American Sportswear
Luxferity, 02.10.2025
Catherine Holstein presents KHAITE Spring Summer 2026 with a narrative deeply rooted in the codes of American sportswear, yet boldly reinterpreted for the modern luxury wardrobe. A collection that balances fragility with clarity, it captures the cinematic energy of New York while exploring the tension between structure and fluidity.
Silk Shirt (Luscious Red)
A Wardrobe for the Modern Woman
The collection is defined by its architectural silhouettes, reimagined staples, and refined contradictions. Each piece embodies a dialogue of duality: strength and vulnerability, structure and collapse, tradition and transformation.
Embellished Pinstripe Silk Shirt
Outerwear emerges as a focal point. From precise trench gabardine coats to supple leather jackets and sculptural blazers in tropical wool, each piece is designed as both foundation and statement. Functionality remains essential, yet always surprising.
- Silhouette and Proportion: Reimagined Classics
- The Spring Summer 2026 wardrobe plays with proportion and shape.
- Capacious tops billow against sharply tailored lines.
- Structured dresses collapse into unexpected fluidity.
- Voluminous skirts and slouched trousers shift between weight and lightness.
- Hand-finished knitwear brings a tactile, human dimension to the precision of tailoring.
Silk Shirt (White)
Denim takes on a new luxury vernacular: slouched jeans, lengthened skirts, and folded proportions, paired effortlessly with plongé leather blazers and double-face crepe jackets. The result is a reinvention of the American uniform—familiar, yet entirely new.
Pinstripe Crepe Shirt
The Language of Ornamentation
Prints and embroidery enrich the collection, transforming utility into ornament.
- Polka dots, ditsy roses, bouquet florals, fur dot embroidery, and ribbon flowers act as both nostalgic symbols and modern statements.
- Handmade knitwear in merino cashmere, linen mélange, and silk gazar offers dimension and cinematic drape, while chiffon and silk twill introduce transparency and weightless fluidity.
Monogram Embroidered Cotton Shirt
The palette evokes the American landscape, balancing grounded tones of tea stain, absinthe, marine, and dahlia with soft hues of peach, chalk, and wheat. The result: a collection steeped in shadow and gleam, echoing the contrasts of contemporary womanhood.
Pleated Ruffle Chiffon Shirt (Orient Blue)
Creative Collaboration
The show itself was a cinematic production, brought to life through the vision of an exceptional creative team:
- Creative Direction: Catherine Holstein
- Styling: Vanessa Traina
- Casting: Piergiorgio Del Moro at DM Casting
- Hair: Guido Palau for TRESemmé
- Makeup: Diane Kendal for NARS
- Skin Prep: Athena Hewett for Monastery
- Digital Identity: Chandelier Creative
- Set & Show Design: Griffin Frazen with Vincent de Belleval
- Lighting: Vincent de Belleval
- Music: Jean Michel Derain
- Photography & Video Direction: Hanna Tveite
- Production: Prodject
- Public Relations Support: Lucien Pagès
Swirl Embroidered Cotton Shirt
A Tribute to Craft and Modernity
Holstein’s Spring Summer 2026 collection is more than fashion—it is a meditation on duality. It honors American sportswear while challenging its boundaries, crafting a luxury wardrobe for women who find confidence in instability, and elegance in contradiction.
Pleated Ruffle Shirt
It is a cinematic journey through fragility and strength, tradition and reinvention—a definitive moment for New York’s role in global luxury fashion.
