Kate & Kass

Launched in the spring of 2006, kate & kass marries the playful and innocent sensuality of the 1960’s and ‘70s with the comfort and practicality of the 21st century.  kate & kass specializes in a-line, empire-waist, and baby doll silhouettes, drawing inspiration from 1960’s films such as Petulia, Rosemary's Baby, Darling, and Two for the Road, and from female icons like Gloria Steinem, Jackie Onassis, and Jane Fonda, who showed women they could be at once stylish and powerful.

Designed in floral prints and muted, feminine tones, kate & kass pieces feature small details popular in sixties and seventies-era garments - vintage buttons, plackets, pin-tucks, pleating, darts, and hidden pockets.  Where kate & kass departs from the past is in its fabrics; soft and supple cotton blends that breathe and drape easily have replaced the stiffer, more constricting materials of earlier decades.

kate & kass founder anya teresse began collecting vintage clothing with her lunch money at age 12.  The 28-year-old daughter of a Broadway actress/dancer (“kate”) and a restaurateur/singer (“kass”), Teresse is a lover of film and worked as an assistant costume designer for six years on movies that include Art School Confidential and Friends with Money. She has studied fashion design at Parson’s School of Design in Paris and Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. She is currently working on her Spring/ Summer 2008 line.