KHAITE Resort 2026 Turns Resort Dressing Into Urban Exploration

The KHAITE Resort 2026 collection frames resort dressing as a kind of urban exploration. It uses sharp tailoring, bold textures, and a darker, moodier palette. This approach rethinks what “vacation” clothes look like for the modern, city-focused woman. Instead of breezy escapism, it leans into tension and contrast. The collection explores soft versus structured, wild versus sleek. It creates a wardrobe built for movement between New York, Los Angeles, and beyond.​

Mood and narrative

Designer Catherine Holstein approached Resort 2026 at a particularly personal moment. She welcomed her second child just a day before the collection’s presentation. This life event subtly shifts the emotional tone of the lineup. That new chapter, combined with the upcoming KHAITE store opening on Melrose Place in Los Angeles, gives the collection a more playful, optimistic streak. This contrasts with some of her past, more severe outings.

Reviewers describe the mood as powerful yet lightened, with the brand’s signature “stealth” woman now allowing flashes of exuberance. This is shown through color, print, and proportion. It is still urban and polished, but there is a sense of looseness. This suggests a woman ready to enjoy her life as much as she masters it.​

Key pieces and silhouettes

Outerwear remains a major focus. Coats and jackets are treated as the foundation of the wardrobe. Holstein experiments with new shapes. Jackets are cut longer in the front and cropped at the natural waist in the back. There are also styles with side plackets that flare into sculptural, almost winged silhouettes.​

Shirt-dresses offered in both solid tones and floral prints are cut with generous volume. This gives them an easy, throw-on quality while still reading polished. Tailoring stays precise. Double-breasted “case” blazers and a single-breasted leather jacket with chrome buttons from neck to hem sharpen the lineup and anchor more experimental pieces.​

Textures, animal motifs, and leather

Texture is where Resort 2026 really pushes into new territory. Zebra-striped pony skin appears alongside delicate florals. This collision captures the collection’s fascination with duality and juxtaposition. Additionally, turquoise ostrich boots inject a jolt of saturated color and tactility. This transforms even the simplest look into something editorial.

Leather is a major story. Plongé leather coats invite touch with their buttery softness, while distressed leather shows up on bombers. These reverse to reveal shearling, offering two moods in one piece. Pony skin pants and printed rabbit jackets point to a renewed readiness. Some luxury clients are willing to engage with real fur and hair calf again. This is a shift from the recent dominance of faux-only options.​

Accessories that extend the attitude

Accessories extend the collection’s power-meets-play mood. A vibrant purple pony skin tote is highlighted as a standout piece. It’s described as perfect for weekend escapes but also imagined as a striking diaper bag—an acknowledgment of Holstein’s own life changes and of customers balancing style with practicality.​

Handbags across the Resort 2026 delivery, from the Blake crossbody priced at $4,400 to various Lotus totes ranging around $1,980–$2,480, reinforce KHAITE’s position in the luxury accessories space. These pieces are designed as long-term wardrobe anchors rather than seasonal novelties.​

A wardrobe of exploration

Official collection notes describe Resort 2026 as introducing “a wardrobe of exploration,” with each piece playing into the “particularities of form, color, pattern, and texture” and embracing duality. That idea comes through in outfits that mix strict tailoring with wild prints, or luxurious leather with relaxed, almost undone shapes.

For the KHAITE client, this is not resort wear meant only for beaches and far-flung escapes. It is a set of clothes built to navigate real life—cross-continental flights, early-morning meetings, late dinners, new motherhood—with a sense of strength, sensuality, and wit.​