Khaite 9 Years Lookbook : Iconic Leather Jackets & Coats
I've already written the brand story of Khaite , and the previous article Khaite Dress also sorted out Khaite's core representative styles. This article will cover leather jackets, leather coats, and trench coats, which will conclude the introduction to Khaite.
Khaite's core outerwear categories are leather jackets and leather trench coats of different lengths, which were launched starting in 2019 (while 2017 and 2018 mainly established the status of cashmere sweaters, dresses, mulberry silk fabrics, and puff sleeve designs in Khaite's brand DNA).
Now, when I open the official website, the jackets and suits I see are mainly leather coats. Khaite's leather designs matured in 2022, while wool and cashmere coats and suits are still in the early stages of optimization and are not yet mature.
This is the second time I've seen a brand with so many leather outerwear lookbooks. The first time was with the emerging Milanese high-end minimalist brand Armarium. I will compare Khaite and Armarium below. It's clear that Armarium has drawn inspiration from Khaite's designs. Adam Lippes also mentioned that Khaite popularized leather coats, and various brands have imitated them in recent years.
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The trench coat-style long, medium, and short leather coats launched in 2019 featured epaulets and gun flaps. The initial style was sharp and powerful. By the new season of 2025, Khaite's outerwear still follows this style, with many suits and jackets having shoulder pad designs. Unless it's a particularly short, high-waisted cropped style, the pockets on leather coats are generally made very noticeable.
In 2020, leather coat designs incorporated suede and also featured suit-style versions, which were quite ordinary and lacked distinctive features.
The 2021 bomber jacket had a sporty silhouette, and the suit-style leather coats continued to be refined, becoming more individualistic with sharper lines.
The most leather coats were released in 2022, including the jacket, suit, and coat styles mentioned above, with upgrades in details.
The aviator jacket added a fur collar, and the pockets became patch pockets.
These shearling collar jackets became the core style of Khaite's jackets. Three years later, they are still sold on the official website. This style, which combines motorcycle jacket and aviator jacket elements, along with the patch pockets, became the main elements of the Shellar Jacket.
Made of 100% lambskin with a 100% cupro lining, the newly upgraded sleeve silhouette incorporates the lantern sleeve and tulip bud elements from Khaite Dress.
The high-waisted, super-cropped jacket removed the epaulets and gun flap design, creating a minimalist style with simpler side pockets.
The one on Adam Lippes 's official website is similar to this style.
The simple high-waisted cropped leather jacket, the Hewit, is still available on Khaite's official website, but the elastic neckline of the bomber jacket has been changed to a square leather collar. The leather used is not the lambskin of the Shellar Jacket mentioned above, but plonge lamb, a soft-treated lambskin that is lightweight, supple, and more lustrous, and is also more expensive than ordinary lambskin.
The Hewit Jacket also sells well on the official website and is only available in size M.
The mid-length trench coat-style leather coat with a belt has a more fitted silhouette and newly added zipper designs.
Suede was previously used for short jackets and suits, but in 2022, it was also extended to large lapel coat styles. Long leather suit jackets were also made, but I'm still not convinced by the long suit jacket silhouette. You can see that the armpits in the photo are still bulging.
In 2023, both short trench coats and long suit trench coats were being refined. The oversized aviator jacket leather coat, which removed the fur collar from 2022, became more basic and versatile. The suit silhouette became more body-hugging, with different collar types.
By 2023, Khaite's short and long leather coats were relatively mature, and the focus of outerwear began to shift towards long and short suit designs. Therefore, there were not many types of leather coats in 2023.
In 2024, the leather material of the leather jackets was upgraded, becoming more lustrous. The trench coat epaulet element from 2022 was reintroduced, and the previous buttons were replaced with zippers. The sleeve silhouette combined the lantern sleeve design of Khaite dresses, appearing more rounded.
I like the leather jackets from the 2024 season the most. Paired with Khaite's newly added sunglasses category, they look very cool. At this point, whether it was jackets or long and short suit-style leather coats, Khaite was very mature. The continuous design of leather coats over the years also prompted other minimalist brands in the fashion industry to pay attention to the leather coat category.
From 2023 to 2025, Khaite incorporated many elements of The Row, and many minimalist styles of leather coats appeared. The lookbooks also had some of The Row's style. In 2024, in addition to refining leather coats, more focus was placed on wool coat design. The coat category is still in its early stages, and Khaite is not yet proficient in it.
The short leather jacket in 2025 has a lapel again, but it's not the wool lapel of 2022 but one with a fur-like texture. The silhouette of the short jacket is more oversized, applying the Khaite Dress tulip bud shape to the leather jacket category. The jacket on the right is paired with Khaite's organza design.
The long leather jacket in the 2025FW collection also features shearling fur-like elements, reflecting the coat silhouette that Khaite has focused on developing in the past two years. The silhouette is cooler and more streamlined, much more so than the two silhouettes they initially created in 2022.
For long leather coats, Khaite's official website currently offers the large lapel Maxwell Trench and the double-breasted suit lapel LoLo Coat.
Quiet luxury and simplicity have been popular in recent years. The trench coat-style leather coats from the initial 2019 collection are now rarely seen at Khaite, with the epaulets and gun flaps removed for a simpler look.
Let's also talk about Armarium, an emerging Milanese brand that also values leather coats. Their leather coats are trench coat styles, similar to Khaite's leather coat designs from 2019-2020.
Armarium's 2024FW leather coat design is also similar to Khaite's 2024FW floral pattern, while Khaite itself released a strapless pleated floral leather coat in 2025.
The first two pictures are Armarium 2024FW, the middle one is Khaite 2024FW, and the rightmost one is Khaite 2025FW.
These red ones are the Angora red that has been talked about a lot in the past two years.
Let me also mention here that Armarium learns from both Khaite and The Row. The font on Armarium's official website is similar to that of The Row, while The Row and Khaite have also started learning from each other. For example, can you distinguish which brand each of the following three lookbooks belongs to?
The left one is The Row 2021, the middle one is Armarium 2025, and the right one is Khaite 2025. Notice this sweatshirt set? This pant style is something I pay special attention to, with deliberately designed crooked lines. If you like this style, you can follow these three brands.
I really like it, but none of these three brands are suitable for petite Asians.
Next, let's talk about The Row's leather coat designs.
The following are The Row 2012, 2017, and 2018 respectively. Similar to the tulip bud skirt, The Row did it earlier than Khaite, but it was not used as a core style for innovative design, but rather as an occasional embellishment each season.
After Khaite launched many leather coat designs from 2020 to 2022 and gained attention, The Row also began to add some leather coat designs. In 2022, they initially started with trench coat-style leather coats, and in 2024, they borrowed Khaite's distinctly oversized rounded leather jacket design. In 2025FW, they also launched coat-style leather coats, similar to Khaite's LoLo Coat.
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Khaite's coats and suits are not yet mature. After establishing a foothold in the industry with dresses and leather clothing, they started designing suits in 2023 and began focusing on promoting coats in 2024. Currently, their suits and coats mainly imitate The Row.
The first items updated in 2020 were trench coats. As mentioned earlier, the leather coats at that time were mainly trench coat styles. Compared to coats and suits, trench coats are more design-friendly. Therefore, some accessible luxury brands like Julia Jentzsch, Maria McManus , and La Collection, whose design level hasn't reached the high-end, mainly focus on trench coats, as does the Chinese brand Icicle.
At this time, Khaite's trench coats also lacked distinctive features, with somewhat shapeless silhouettes. The wool jacket and leather pants on the right also had very ordinary fits.
Khaite's outerwear in 2021 showed clear improvement compared to 2020. Although still lacking strong unique features, they added fur items. Subsequently, Khaite would release shearling coats with a fur-like texture every season. The shoulder pad design in suits was also incorporated into Khaite's design DNA.
Several trench coats were also made in 2022, but fewer were produced afterward. It can be said that trench coats are a category where Khaite hasn't been very successful, with fewer styles. The experience accumulated from trench coats was used to create lambskin trench coats and shearling coats.
The suits and coats in 2022 still looked very ordinary, wrinkled, and the fabrics were not very good.
Throughout 2023, they learned a lot from The Row in various aspects, with suits also leaning towards The Row's style, but with a greater emphasis on shoulder pads and straight, angular shoulders.
The 2023 SS show was one of Khaite's most talked-about, with both suits and trench coats featuring wide-shoulder designs, exuding more presence and a stronger Khaite style.
The long suits in 2023 FW also featured wide-shoulder designs, emphasizing the creation of a powerful, straight-lined female lead aura. The fur-textured shearling coats, on the other hand, borrowed the high-waisted cropped design of leather jackets.
In 2024, several wool and cashmere versions based on the bomber leather jacket silhouette were also released, but the style was not distinct and relatively ordinary.
The three padded, rounded lantern-sleeve short and long coats released in 2024FW are quite special and have a strong presence. Let's see if Khaite will iterate on them in the future.
This rounded shoulder and rounded sleeve style was actually launched by The Row in a dress version in 2023.
These two coats from the 2024FW collection don't look very Khaite-like; they are ordinary styles that seem to be available from any brand.
Looking at the four images below, the middle two are from The Row's past collections, while the other two are Khaite 2024FW. Although the clothes are different in the rightmost three, the model's shooting angle, photography style, shoulder, waist, and sleeve silhouettes, and belt are very similar.
If the model's face in this 2025FW square suit wasn't obscured and the lighting wasn't dim, one would really think it was a suit from The Row. Even the model's hand-in-pocket pose is the same.
Khaite's distinctive item in 2025FW is still the fur-textured shearling coat, living up to its initial positioning in early 2021.
Khaite's coats tend to be long.
The two images below are from The Row 2014 and 2016 respectively, which are made to be slimmer and more petite. The two cashmere coats above give me a somewhat similar feeling, although they are made longer with longer necklines.
Epilogue
Khaite's core categories are the dresses, long-sleeved and short-sleeved tops, cashmere sweaters, and pants corresponding to the seven design elements written in the previous article Khaite Dress, as well as the leather clothing category discussed in this article, especially leather jackets, followed by leather coats, and then shearling coats. Wool and cashmere coats and suits still lag behind The Row, and The Row itself took four years to develop its own distinctive style.
Overall, as a high-end quiet luxury brand on par with The Row, it is very worthy of attention and will definitely be mentioned many times in the future. This concludes the compilation of Khaite's lookbooks for now.
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