Kate Young and Quince have collaborated on a capsule collection curated by the award-winning stylist, featuring a bevy of summertime essentials and travel accessories, now available on Quince’s official website.
“Kate thinks like a stylist but edits like a traveler, which is exactly the combination we needed,” Dakota Kate Isaacs, head of brand strategy and narrative at Quince, told WWD via email. “Her work has always had this quality of looking polished without ever feeling like it tried too hard, and that’s a hard thing to pull off.” Young serves as the stylist for such stars as Dakota Johnson, Rose Byrne and Julianne Moore, among others.
“When she recommends something, it’s not because it looked good on a mood board,” Isaacs said of Young. “It’s because she has put pieces like it on real people in real situations and watched how they wear, wash and travel. That’s the kind of education we want to give our customer, and Kate is exactly the right person to deliver it.”
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The collection is inspired by the everyday traveler, with versatile and timeless pieces made for mixing and matching without sacrificing style or comfort. The collection is crafted with elevated material, including European flax linen, silk, cashmere and 14-karat gold.
Pieces curated by Young include the Mongolian shrunken cashmere sweatshirt in navy, European linen patch pocket wide-leg pants and Italian leather glove ballet flat. It’s a capsule with “beautiful things that actually make sense for how you travel,” Isaacs said.
Along with apparel and accessories, the collection also features a summertime travel essential: Quince‘s lightweight carry-on, retailing for $169.
“A stylist thinks about things the average shopper doesn’t know to think about: how a fabric’s weight affects packability, which weaves resist wrinkling in a suitcase, how a cut that looks relaxed can still feel structured when you need it to — Kate applied all of that to our assortment and distilled it into a travel wardrobe with a real point of view,” Isaacs said.
“The result is a capsule that does real work for the traveler. Every piece earns its place: the fabric is right for the conditions, the silhouette works across multiple occasions and the construction holds up to the kind of wear that travel actually puts clothes through,” Isaacs said.
“That’s not styling for a shoot. That’s dressing for real life, and that’s what Kate does so well.”
