Khaite FW24 / Fall Winter 2024 at New York Fashion Week
“I’ve been thinking a lot about heritage, generational change, reworking, rebuilding, falling apart, and picking up. This season we explored the dilapidation of a fallen drape quite literally, sculpting it on the body and letting the shape fall away. It was in those moments we found them to become the most beautiful: a true celebration of the material. It’s quite cathartic to allow things to release, to fall, and to stay in it. I found myself seduced by this notion as a practice.
The idea of heritage from memory has been fascinating me for quite a while; who we were, are, and become, transitioning from generation to generation. This collection is for my mother. Or at least, my memory of her.” – catherine holstein
Uniting shape and surface, refinement and release, memory and forgetting, Khaite Fall Winter 2024 proposes a wardrobe of dynamic range. Well-honed techniques are intensified.
Details of Khaite Khaite FW24 / Fall Winter 2024:
Textures are liberated and celebrated. Sublime details become structural. In silhouettes that speak volumes, a signature sense of ease endures.
As noble materials are brought into dialogue with the body, the collection is infused with the roundness of sculpture.
Excess is stripped away, harmonizing the enveloping fits of menswear, feminine tailoring, and couture contours. This clarifying instinct extends to double-faced constructions, fortified by hand-laid strips of organza to preserve the strength of their softness.
Elongated coats and collared capes are joined by versatile jackets that reimagine classic silhouettes spanning generations. Smoothed shapes invite all-day layering. Variations on the button-up introduce tuxedo elements that are reprised in the cummerbund-inspired waistbands of slip-on skirts and polished trousers.
Rebalanced proportions are illuminated by ascending waist-lines, cinched and puffed by drawstrings or extended into the structured bodice of a jumpsuit. Liberated materials invigorate eased shapes, as when silk gazar floats free, in whipped peaks, atop a sleek organza lining or a precisely placed dart animates suiting fabric into soft ripples for Khaite FW24
Knitwear also runs the gamut, exploring novel weights, textures, and densities, including structured sheer viscose that conceals and reveals. Fine merino wool affords precision that is expressed in sharpened edges. Color-blocking is finessed by the needle punching of brushed cashmere silkened by mohair.
Anchored by black, white, and cream, the palette is variegated with nuanced neutrals—heathered greys, army green, camel—and spiked with oxblood. The seasonal print is a scarf-inspired grid in which black lines bracket panels of fiery spots, evoking la dolce vita by way of futurism.
Accessories of Khaite FW24 are integral, elevated by irresistible textures, decisive lines, and Italian craftsmanship. Footwear is finely calibrated. An architectural take on the peep-toe pump pairs a sliced and squared toe with a curved topline. This fine balance is accentuated in handbags. Structure and softness align in graceful debuts like the cate bag, shaped by a refined frame, at once intricate and nimble.
All images Khaite FW24 / Fall Winter 2024 by Khaite
Credit to:
Creative direction: Catherine Holstein, styling: Vanessa Traina, casting: Piergiorgio Del Moro At DM casting, hair: Guido, makeup: Diane Kendal for NARS, nails: Dawn Sterling for Essie Skin, prep: Macrene Actives, show design: Griffin Frazen, show direction and production: Prodject, photographer and video director: Hanna Tveite, music: Jean Michel Derain, collection services: Rae Creative
Photographer Front row Rommel Dimano-BFA
PR Agency L52 Communications London