There’s an innate understanding among women about how they are expected to exist in the world: their wants, their needs, and their choices are all up for debate at any given time, by anyone. Every day, a woman puts on her sartorial armor to face another day in a world built by and for men—an experience summed up poignantly by America Ferrera’s character in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. But there’s a certain je ne sais quoi of uplifted feminist consciousness when a woman wears clothes designed by a woman. It’s that unspoken understanding of shared experience, ever-present in the back of a female designer’s mind when she creates garments for other women. How they walk, how they think, how they live.
Today, women are finding power in the capsule collection—a rebranded way of uniform dressing that prioritizes collecting quality pieces that are representative of the individual. Unsurprising considering the growing success of designers like Catherine Holstein at Khaite, a favorite of
