Since its launch in 2023, Kylie Jenner’s brand Khy has been a reflection of Jenner’s contemporary aesthetic, as well as a platform for collaborating with burgeoning designers, from Dilara Fındıkoğlu, to Poster Girl, and Entire Studios. These partnerships have expanded the Khy-verse, making luxury sensibilities and elements of style accessible to Jenner’s audience. And from the beginning, just like Kylie Cosmetics, Jenner has been at the forefront of conceptualizing, designing, creative directing, and marketing.
Her latest collaboration is with Singapore-born, New York-based designer Grace Ling, whose sensual, subversively elegant designs have formed around the bodies of Jenner, her sister Kim Kardashian, Charli xcx, and Jenna Ortega. Ling is known for form-fitting designs and experiments in 3D printing and CGI, with signature aluminium breastplates and textiles that look like they’re smoldering. The Khy x Grace Ling collection features fluidly draped bamboo jersey halter dresses, bandeau tops and bodysuits, cinched second skin pants, and clingy maxi skirts with pierced silver details.
“Khy exudes a strong, sexy energy, while Grace Ling has always been about chicness and intelligent femininity,” Ling tells Vogue of the brands’ kinship. “The overlap is in empowerment, creating something that makes women feel confident and self-assured. That’s where our aesthetics really align.”
Each Khy collaboration has spoken to different aspects of Jenner’s sartorial sensibilities. With Fındıkoğlu, there was a focus on subverting classic tailoring and references to corsetry that the Turkish designer has expounded on in her own house. Across Khy’s multiple collaborations with Entire Studios, there has been a push into sculptural outerwear and thoughtful wardrobe staples.
Ling has worked with the Kardashian and Jenner family stylists for some time now, so talk about collaboration happened organically. They began discussing it seriously last year, with a focus on making easy jersey pieces with “edge,” adding Ling’s signature metal hardware to elevate Khy’s core silhouettes. Over the course of several months and multiple rounds of fitting, trimming, sketching, and sampling options, both Jenner and Ling—and their design teams—distilled the collection down into a tight 21 pieces in three colorways.
“Even before I started my brand, I always admired Kylie as a strong businesswoman, so when the opportunity came up, it felt like a full-circle moment,” Ling adds. “I love how KHY’s collabs have always been diverse. Each one has its own identity, but still keeps that strong, sexy core. I wanted to bring my own sculptural, slightly eccentric edge into that universe.”
“Kylie and I share a vision of empowering women through fashion, so it never felt forced.”
As a brand, Grace Ling—who made a New York Fashion Week debut in spring 2024—sits in a more luxury space with couture clients. Collaborating with Jenner was an opportunity to challenge herself, “to translate that same DNA into pieces at a more accessible price point,” says Ling. “It meant rethinking fabrication and construction without losing the integrity of the design. It pushed me to really consider what defines the brand, what details absolutely needed to stay, and then build around that.”
For Ling, one of her personal standout pieces is the pierced short-sleeve top. “It’s very everyday, simple and wearable, but with that signature Grace Ling twist that makes it feel strong, special, and elevated,” she says.
And who is the Khy x Grace Ling girl? “She’s a dreamer and a doer,” says Ling. “She’s carving out her own version of success, and she dresses for herself first. She wants to feel sexy, but in a way that’s empowering, not performative. She’s wearing this out to dinner with friends, on a date, or even just running errands, because the clothes are versatile enough to move with her life, while still reminding her of the woman she’s becoming.”
