With so much fashion existing online, there’s something refreshing about trying pieces on in-store after eyeing them first on a little screen. Enter Just Browsing: We’re taking you into the fitting room as we preview the newest collections from some of our favorite high-street brands and contemporary labels. We’ll get into fabric and quality, fit and feel, and so much more as we make our way through the shop floor.
Happy scrolling (and strolling)! I’ve been a fan of Khaite since the brand’s inception in 2016, when my former colleague and then Vogue.com market editor Anny Choi introduced me to its debut collection of denim and knits. A few seasons later, on a brisk February evening at St.
Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York in 2019, I excitedly attended the label’s very first runway show alongside a few other Vogue alums, Emily Farra and Caroline Griswold, and fans of the then-emerging brand. It’s been remarkable to watch the brand thrive and mature into the household name it is now, while simultaneously growing my own career at Vogue . Which brings me to now, fall 2024, where I’ve taken to the Mercer Street flagship, designed by founder and creative director, Catherine Holstein, and her husband, the New York-based architect, Griffin Frazen, to get a closer look of what’s in store.
The boutique, with its skylit corners and curved steel-partitioned walls, amplifies Holstein’s own design sensibility, emphasizing materials and constructions that are struct.