Fashion career profile
Brigitte Kleine
Brigitte Kleine is an American fashion and consumer-business executive and Chief Executive Officer and board member of KHAITE. She is also an Operating Partner at Stripes, where she focuses on branded consumer businesses in fashion and retail, and serves on the boards of Reformation and Shibumi. Before joining Stripes, Kleine was President of Tory Burch, President of Michael Kors Collection and Alexander McQueen, and President of International and Licensing at Donna Karan. At KHAITE, her executive remit is separate from founder Catherine Holstein’s creative leadership. This profile links Kleine’s current KHAITE position and her material prior fashion-house leadership without conflating executive management with design authorship. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University.
- Role
- Chief Executive Officer, KHAITE
- Nationality
- American
- Career appointments
- 5
- Fashion houses
- 5
- Current scope: KHAITE CEO and board member · Stripes Operating Partner · board member at Reformation and ShibumiCurrent company roles are listed by Stripes; CEO and board roles at KHAITE are kept distinct from its creative leadership. · Stripes
- Previous fashion leadership: President: Tory Burch · Michael Kors Collection · Alexander McQueen · Donna Karan InternationalThe source establishes titles and organisations but not exact dates for these appointments; no dates are inferred. · Stripes
- Education: Bachelor of Arts, Rutgers UniversityEducation is taken from KHAITE’s public filing; it is not inferred from a crowdsourced profile. · KHAITE SEC filing
- 2023 — Leads KHAITE as Chief Executive OfficerKleine’s current KHAITE CEO and board roles are confirmed by the company’s investor, Stripes.
- 2023–Present — Chief Executive Officer — KHAITECurrent appointment · Stripes
- Start not documented–End not documented — President — Tory BurchHistorical appointment · Stripes
- Start not documented–End not documented — President, Michael Kors Collection — Michael KorsHistorical appointment · Stripes
- Start not documented–End not documented — President — McQueenHistorical appointment · Stripes
- Start not documented–End not documented — President, International and Licensing — Donna KaranHistorical appointment · Stripes