Catherine Holstein has been busy. Since successful the CFDA’s American Womenswear Designer of the 12 months final November, the Khaite founder and inventive director is opening her first retail retailer (designed in collaboration together with her husband, architect Griffin Frazen), the place she debuted her Fall/Winter 2023 assortment on Sunday, all whereas getting ready to welcome the couple’s first youngster. Her newest mission? A collaboration with luxurious eyewear model Oliver Peoples.
“I couldn’t ask for a greater companion,” Holstein lately advised Vainness Honest of the partnership. “We now have a mutual respect for one another and the dialog began growing into the thought of a collaboration. It was a really pure development.”
For Khaite, a model with its personal extremely coveted line of equipment, like the Davis boot and uniquely formed baggage just like the Olivia and Lotus, sun shades had been an instinctive subsequent step. That includes an solely designed corewire – the a part of the eyeglass body that helps the temples retain form and connect with the lenses – impressed by the {hardware} in Khaite’s baggage, the creation of every pair concerned a double embedding course of with two items of steel in between two layers of acetate on the outside.
By Hanna Tveite.
The gathering boasts three types, every designed to encapsulate a unique period and to cater “to that girl who’s very mysterious and darker, like a Brigitte Bardot or Jane Birkin,” Holstein says. The 1969C focuses “on the mod motion greater than the rest, the place you get a really sharp, skinny body,” Holstein provides. The 1971C and the 1983C function wider, extra ovular shapes, introducing a method that’s “a bit of bit greater, and a bit of extra glam,” she says, leaning on musical icons for inspiration. “David Bowie is at all times a primary affect aesthetically on the subject of confidence and danger.”
Although they’re impressed by totally different eras in vogue, the sun shades stay a traditional accent, regardless of the type. “Oliver Peoples has at all times been recognizable for a timeless aesthetic that champions craftsmanship above logos and traits,” says Rocco Basilico, CEO of Oliver Peoples, “each manufacturers discovered a commonality in honoring type that can at all times be related.”
The marketing campaign takes the model in a brand new route, photographed by Hanna Tveite on worldwide mannequin and muse Steinberg, and inventive directed by Holstein, it delves into the alter ego and the moody, mysterious Khaite aesthetic via the Oliver Peoples lens. “Every little thing we do has a darkness to it,” Holstein says as they needed to discover one thing “a bit sharper, and edgier than your typical eyewear marketing campaign.”
The Oliver Peoples x Khaite Eyewear Collaboration is now out there for buy on Khaite and Oliver Peoples’ web sites.
By Hanna Tveite.
