Walmart designer dupes fashion friends $620 jeans for just $30 and the internet is going wild for them
They were craving some jean therapy.This week, Walmart shoppers flipped when they discovered a pair of $30 jeans that appeared to be a dead ringer for a $620 pair adored by Kendall Jenner and Rihanna.The original pants are from Khaite, a 10-year-old label by Soho art darling Catherine Holstein, who previously worked at Gap and Very Wang.But Holstein’s clothes are notoriously teeny.
According to Bergdorf Goodman, her largest cuts barely fit a size 12.Enter Walmart designer Brandon Maxwell, a fashion buddy of Holstein’s who has moonlit as a Project Runway judge.After taking over Walmart’s Scoop and Free Assembly lines in 2021, the designer — who has created couture for Jennifer Lawrence and Meghan Markle — duped Khaite’s fashion-famous jeans, right down to their signature black enamel buttons.The big difference: These jeans are available in larger sizes.
Online, Maxwell’s denim for Walmart goes up to a women’s 28 — more than twice the size of Khaite’s thin-spiration.At $30, it also costs just 5% of Holstein’s premium pants.Maxwell has always been an advocate for size diversity, regularly including larger models at his celeb-jammed fashion shows and telling Bustle that he’s been making plus-size clothes “from day one.” He added, “Our job is to make women feel good.
If you have a problem doing that, with any type of woman, then you should not be doing this job.”The $30 dupe jeans have sparked a fashion frenzy, with sources inside the brand telling The Post that they “cannot restock them fast enough” online.Stella Kittrell, a plus-size model and influencer, bought “every shade” of the Khaite dupes.“All my plus-sized luxury girlies are going to be so excited,” she said.
“Walmart, you outdid yourselves.”“A win is a win,” conceded luxury fashion consultant Casey Morrow Lewis, who runs the popular Substack newsletter After School, which tracks Gen Z spending habits.She noted on TikTok that the washes appear “almost c...