Pippa Holt grew up on the beaches of Australia and was inspired by her grandmother's style of tropical dressing. The pastel pink No.49 features sublime zig zag detailing on the shoulders and candy coloured motifs. The mini version of the ‘classic’ No.55, this style is perfect for holidays. The colours of the threads are dyed from natural processes using vegetables and flowers.

Stylist Pippa Holt launched her eponymous line of luxury, hand-crafted kaftans in 2016, celebrating her love of fashion design, textiles, far-flung travel and beautiful, original holiday attire.

Pippa Holt Kaftans

Kaftan No.49

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Pippa Holt's kaftans are handmade by artisan weavers on a traditional backstrap loom - each piece takes one month to complete. This style features purple and white stripes, peppered with multicoloured motifs and is the single panel version of No.22. It works equally well with a leather belt in the city as it does worn loose on vacation with a straw basket and sunhat.

Kaftan No.73

Pippa Holt's artisanal coverups look just as chic in the city as they do on vacation. The kaftans have ease and versatility in mind - "they pack small, work day and night, on a beach, in a city, with or without a belt," she explains. With its pink and ochre colour combination, this is a versatile and up-lifting cover up to wear. Ideal over your swimsuit pool side, with sandals, or belted with heels for dressed up Summer nights.

Kaftan No.12

Kaftan No. 4 is the ultimate holiday essential. Woven by Mexican artisans on a traditional backstrap loom, it evokes an artisanal edge with its fringing and white motifs. Style it with classic sandals for the beach or trainers while paving the urban streets.

Kaftan No.81

Pippa Holt’s kaftans are handmade by artisan weavers on a traditional backstrap loom – each piece takes one month to complete. This multi-coloured striped style features criss-cross motif in accordance with the traditions of the remote Mexican weaving community, where they are made. The symbols represent joy, union and family. The colour combinations are often influenced by the surrounding nature as well as local flora and fauna. This is a statement kaftan and black accessories would compliment No.45 in the city or at the beach.

Kaftan No.45

Pippa Holt proves that pink and red are the ultimate colour combination for SS20 with her standout three-panel maxi. The ultimate artisanal cover-up, it demonstrates the weaver Monica Hernandez’s technique with its intricate motifs and hand-stitched seams – a task often taken on by the males in the community.

Kaftan No.242

Pippa Holt's kaftans are handmade by artisan weavers on a traditional backstrap loom - each piece takes one month to complete. This single panel maxi style is the favourite kaftan of fashions editors’ globally. Its black, narrow silhouette elongates your frame and looks as great on holiday as it does worn with a roll neck in the city during cooler months.

Kaftan No.62

Pippa Holt's artisanal coverups look just as chic in the city as they do on holiday. Taking one month to make, the craft element is very evident in No.7. Bold purple, red and aqua woven motifs stand out against a crisp white background. It works well teamed with natural coloured accessories such as raffia baskets, straw hats as well as pristine white shoes.

Kaftan No.7

Pippa Holt’s kaftans are hand crafted by artisans using traditional methods and take one month to make. No.97 is a limited edition kaftan, whereby only a small number are made each year. The green, naturally dyed cotton thread is unique and difficult to make. Combined with a purple motif, this simple yet statement making kaftan makes an elegant choice for the city or beach.

Kaftan No.97

Pippa Holt's eponymous range of kaftans celebrates her love of indigenous textiles, far-flung travel and beautiful, original attire. Kaftan No.151 features a bold red base with monochrome white and black woven motifs. Style with with black accessories for an urban look, or white accessories for the beach.
To create the rich red dye for the yarn, weavers look to Cochineal, a parasitic insect that lives on nopal cactus. It is a very laborious process to cultivate and harvest cochineal for use in dyeing. While some weavers have a small amount of the live bugs, it usually is purchased from a professional grower. The insects look like white spots when alive and small grey pellets when dead. Before adding them to boiling water, they are ground to a fine powder on the metate.

Kaftan No.151

Pippa Holt’s kaftans are handmade by artisan weavers on a traditional backstrap loom – each piece takes one month to complete. This statement making yellow and black style features a traditional criss-cross motif in accordance with the traditions of the remote Mexican weaving community, where they are handmade. The symbols represent joy, union and family. Styled best with black accessories this kaftan works equally as well in the city as it does on the beach.

Kaftan No.88

Pippa Holt grew up on the beaches of Australia and was inspired by her grandmother's style of tropical dressing for her beachside homes. Cool and minimal, this paired back kaftan is elegant with its classic colour palette of white and beige. No.30’s oversized shape means it looks just as great belted as it does worn loose. The naturally dyed cotton thread is dyed using pigments from  vegetables and flowers. Style with white accessories.

Kaftan No.30

Handmade by Mexican artisan weavers, this style is made from weighty cotton and decorated with candy pink thread. This Supermini is the short version of kaftan No.32. “Hand crafted in the prettiest pink and on a crisp, sophisticated white background”, explains Holt, “this kaftan’s colour palette makes a great neutral.”

Kaftan No.80

Children's kaftan No.41 features a sublime yet simple pink on pink design. Naturally dyed using pigments from flowers and vegetables, the cotton thread is woven into cloth using a backstrap loom, an ancient weaving technique that has been used by generations in this community of weavers.

Children's Kaftan No.41

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Former British Vogue Stylist Pippa Holt has collaborated with a community of weavers in Mexico to create a line of  handwoven belts to wear with the kaftans.
Originating in a town called Santo Tomás Jalieza, known as the ‘belt town’, this group has been making belts for many years in techniques passed down from their ancestors. The colourful pieces are handwoven in cotton on a backstrap loom. Master weaver, Abigail, weaves the finest and most intricate of patterns on small looms on her well lit patio. Her work has won national awards.
This is a pre-Hispanic technique that continues to be used without major changes over the centuries. The complexity of the work that can be created on this loom is limited only by the skill of the weaver. The entire loom with the weaving in progress can be rolled up at any time and carried from place to place.
The belts feature depictions of sacred animals, geometry, feather dancers and the animals and plants they see in their daily life, which is interwoven with fine cotton in vibrant details.
The technique of using a backstrap loom consists of securing an end of the loom to a tree or post and the other end to the waist of the weaver, maintaining the tension with the weight of the body, the women sit on straw mats, feet folded, wide leather belts sit on their lower backs, providing hand placement that is conducive to the creation of sophisticated patterns.
* Each belt comes in a handmade clutch bag made from palms.

Belt No.4

A Pippa Holt hero piece, Kaftan No.212 is an exemplary example of the weavers skills. Handwoven by artisans Margarita and Guelascia and stitched to the three-panel maxi style, its grey cotton base is intricately detailed with black zig-zag motifs. Wear loose for nonchalant ease, or with its matching Pippa Holt belt for a more defined silhouette.

Kaftan No.212

Pippa Holt grew up on the beaches of Australia and was inspired by her grandmother's tropical style of tropical dressing. Hand-woven on a backstrap loom by artisans, this Supermini kaftan in bold red is a natural wardrobe staple. A versatile piece to wear during hot summer months.

Kaftan No.78

Pippa Holt's artisanal coverups look just as chic in the city as they do on vacation. With its bold, woven navy motifs on blue on white stripes, No.115 is a new ‘classic’ in the collection. This kaftan makes a statement and is best worn with white, silver or gold sandals and straw baskets

Kaftan No.115

Size: Approximately 75 cm wide x 94 cm long.

Kaftan No.241

Belt No.1

Pippa Holt describes her artisanal kaftans as "holiday heroes". Handwoven with exaggerated pink and white stripes, with multi-coloured motifs, this statement-making kaftan makes an undoubtedly chic addition to a summer wardrobe. Based on the popular single panel midi version No.57, the supermini length lends versatility to the piece. Wear cinched at the waist for beachside days or loose for easy pool-side charm.

Kaftan No.181

Drawing from Pippa Holt’s Australian upbringing on the beach, the No.121 kaftan evokes the serenity and calm of the ocean. This three-panel mini design is cut from naturally dyed azure cotton. It is beautifully decorated with white motifs depicting the natural life of Mexican culture. Keep the look effortless with white accessories.

Kaftan No.121

For Resort '20 Pippa Holt has created a limited edition range of jumpsuits. Collaborating with artisans and working with their traditional hand woven cloth, each piece is cut and made in a sustainable maker’s studio. The artisanal cotton takes 6 weeks to weave by hand, while the construction of the jumpsuit takes one and a half days. No two are the same and are couture pieces. In the same vein as the kaftans, the jumpsuits are practicable, uplifting and can be worn anywhere.
Jumpsuit No.51 is created with hand-woven cotton constructed on a back-strap loom by artisans Aurelia and Veronica. The versatile denim hue is hand-dyed and fashioned with white motifs.
* It takes each artisan over one month to make a jumpsuit and, due to the way they are meticulously hand-crafted, no two are the same. Naturally dyed cotton thread is woven into cloth using a back-strap loom, an ancient weaving technique that has been used for generations.

Jumpsuit No.51

Jumpsuits

Pippa Holt has collaborated with her husband and the artisans to create a line of mens shorts. Working the PHK artisans using their traditional hand woven cloth, each pair is handmade in a sustainable maker’s studio and no two are the same. Perfect for the beach or during summer days, Holt’s husband styles his ‘kaftan shorts’ with t-shirts and white cotton shirts. The shorts are not only for men but are unisex. The hand made cotton for shorts No.110 was woven by by artisan Yuridia Lorenzo on a backstrap loom using natural dyes.
SIZE & FIT INFORMATION

White and blue cotton

100% cotton

Fits true to size

waist is elasticised and secured with a drawstring

Size S waist m 32"/81cm
Size M waist 34"/87cm
Size L waist 36"/92cm

Shorts No.110

Women's Shorts

For Spring Summer’20 Pippa Holt Kaftans has created a range of limited edition bucket hats. Collaborating with artisans and working with their traditional hand woven cloth, each hat is handmade in a sustainable maker’s studio by milliner Madeleine Carroll. No two are the same. Perfect for the beach or sun protection in the city. Hat No.57’s cotton was woven by artisan Aurelia Garcia on a backstrap loom.

SIZE & FIT INFORMATION

White and blue cotton

100% cotton

Fits true to size

slips on

SIZE SMALL: Approx 50cm-51cm
SIZE MEDIUM: Approx 53cm-54cm
SIZE LARGE: Approx 56cm-57cm
* Each hat is crafted from hand-woven material and is unique, therefore motifs may vary from each design.

Hat No.57

Women's Hats

Evoking the utility trend from its khaki on khaki design right down to its black zips, jumpsuit No.168 is the perfect uniform to combat any urban zone. This limited edition piece is new for Reosrt’20 and made by hand in a sustainable makers studio using hand-woven cloth by artisan Gelasia.

Jumpsuit No.168

Size: Approximately 58 cm wide x 122 cm long.

Kaftan No.260

Pippa Holt’s kaftans are handmade by artisan weavers on a traditional backstrap loom – each piece takes one month to complete. This red and white style features animals and a traditional criss-cross motif in accordance with the traditions of the remote Mexican weaving community, where they are made. The symbols represent joy, union and family. The colour combinations are often influenced by the surrounding nature as well as local flora and fauna.

Kaftan No.1

Single panel midi kaftan in neon yellow and white stripe with black design.

Kaftan No.264

Pippa Holt grew up on the beaches of Australia and was inspired by her grandmother's tropical style of tropical dressing. Hand-woven on a backstrap loom by Mexican artisans, this ankle skimming kaftan in bold red and white elongates the frame. The weavers sometimes finish their weaving with a fringed hem, which they call ‘fleco’ – giving this style a true artisanal but modern feel. Each kaftan takes over one month to make on the back strap loom.