Christopher Kane F/W 11.12 London

[Prairie]

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[Master Wood]

sooo excited about this. everyone is raving about it.

 

[Prairie]

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[xPedro]

I love it! It looks fresh, new, unnusual, evertyhing you expect from a great young designer like Christopher!

 

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[ultramarine]

Talk about a strong collection for a strong woman ... its a heart attack (but in a good way)

I love how he tied in everything in the collection (even accesories) with that wavy pattern .. and the use of texture and materials .... yum.

That geometric pattern .. everything! Def a showstopper!

 

[LolaSvelt]

I swear to god, he is the only designer lately that makes me go "WOW!" whenever I see his collections. Always consistent. Always distinctive. This is fashion!

 

[1999]

I want more pictures! This collection looks very exciting!

 

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[Style Savvy]

Finally an interesting show in London! I love the gels on the dresses. Only Christopher Kane can do it and execute it perfectly!

 

[dajrekshn]

for me, it's absolutely interesting to see someone being able to make/imagine 180 degrees different concepts every few months and hold up with the quality. it's a great "liquid" collection.

tho, the first dress in #6 is very, very Proenza, no?

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Incredibly talented, and always a highlight of LFW. The materials he used on some of those dresses are so brilliant, can not wait to see this collection in full in HQ.

 

[congacon]

best collection so far for london and ny fashion weeks. so innovative and creative, this is how fashion should be.

 

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One of the things that makes Christopher Kane one of London’s most heralded talents, with a fresh cash infusion that accompanied his recent win of the British Fashion Council/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund award and a front row with the likes of Anna Wintour, Samantha Cameron and Browns founder Joan Burstein, is his ability to create looks that women see and want to immediately put on.

“What’s fantastic about Christopher and [his sister] Tammy is that it’s something different every season. It’s never repetitive. It’s always full of new ideas, new technology. Always,” said Ms. Burstein, stylish even in an arm sling. “But this was a joy. I loved it. You want to wear it right away, don’t you? And that’s the test. If you want to wear it right away, that’s it.”

This season, the Scottish designer took the grandma out of crochet, creating embossed, painted leather tops in quilted patterns and cashmere-knitted skirts that, showing some skin, added a sex appeal you would never associate with an afghan throw. “People always associate it with grannies,” Mr. Kane said backstage. “But I think it is so sexy because it hugs the body and shows some skin.”

A series of simple, beautifully tailored black dresses, with low cuts and thigh-high splits, added to the sex appeal — as did sheer sequined numbers. Necklines and pockets were trimmed with wavy, liquid-filled plastic reminiscent of a lava lamp (“When it heats up, it bubbles,” the designer said). The combination proved to be a sort of space age LBD — one that everyone woman backstage couldn’t seem to wait to get her hands on.

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[Style Savvy]

Models at the finale of the Christopher Kane autumn/winter 2011 collection. Photo: PA

No inspiration from Princess Margaret or rock-chicks. No boudoir looks or girly gingham. Christopher Kane was fixated with a curious liquid-look plastic normally used for pencil cases and office stationery.

"It's fantastic," he said backstage before his show at London Fashion Week. "It's got this lava-lamp kind of look and I found someone in London who was prepared to make it into pieces I could use on my dresses."
Kane used the plastic, in shimmering, watercolour pastels and neons, to trim the neck and shoulders of fine black crepe and cashmere little black dresses. It formed the side pockets on slinky skirts and it bisected the bodices of sheer little slips in glistening, iridescent, wet-look sequins, shadow-dyed in pale pinks, turquoise and blue.

The show opened with a selection of what my grandmother used to crochet as bedspreads: Afghans, she called them, little crocheted squares in black and multiple-colours. Kane delivered them in sombre tones of navy, black and forest, slipping V-neck cardigans over below the knee skirts, or pairing a cardigan with a leather pencil, printed with the afghan squares pattern.
"It's more minimal than anything I've done before," said Kane. "But it's time for a change. No more lace or any of that. I didn't want any decoration."

The showing by the talented young Glaswegian, who also designs the Versus line for Donatella Versace, drew a stellar front row, including Samantha Cameron, Anna Wintour, Alexa Chung, Daphne Guinness, Daisy Lowe, Jo Wood, Natalie Massenet, and high profile fashion press including Glenda Bailey the editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar USA, and Franca Sozzani and Emmanuelle Alt, the editors in chief, respectively, of Italian Vogue, and Vogue Paris.

 

[LolaSvelt]

"Christopher Kane was fixated with a curious liquid-look plastic normally used for pencil cases and office stationery."

Wow.

 

[littlepaperstars]

I always do the same thing with Christopher Kane in that I see it on the runway and sort of think 'meh' than see it in a shop and fall in love

 

[FakeFlower]

I'm absolutely amazed by this. The whole collection is so innovative. That's what the fashion industry needs!