Versus S/S 11 Milan

[Flashbang]

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[ultramarine]

It looks very distinctively Kane for Versus ...

I do love every piece of it ... I was surprised too when read that the pattern came from the archives but it does seem a smart move to just work the colour palette ...

I love EVERY piece of this collection .. well, not all... the latter dresses are I dunno but I love most of it ... to the accesories ... its very 90s ... for a moment I thought about the "kinderwhore" moment with MJ at Perry Ellis and everything!

 

[apriliciate]

the details of the bags are kinda cute! but not liking the outfits, seriously stripes??? once i'm wearing this, i'm might be bored! not a good idea..

 

[Lisa~~~*]

Preview

 

[Merveille]

So 90's kinderwhore & oh so Kane.
Love it, love it, love it!!

I am not gonna lie, I want the first backpack and the floral briefcases.

I hope a full video pops up soon.

 

[Psylocke]

The clothes are sooo bad. I really don't like anything here. I guess if you don't like plaid to begin with there's no way you can appreciate this.

The bags however are seriously cute.

 

[Tentacl Ventricl]

Attrocious.

A vertical stripe on a dress or skirt is a risky proposition at the best of times but here the mid calf lengths and the cut managed to make even model's hips look big.

The palette on the floral prints was way off - too muddy.

The plaid was unflattering too and yes felt all too autumnal.

Where was the joy, the pizzaz, the sexy, the fun. It was all too heavy and serious. I didn't think Donatella looked happy at all when she appeared. A trifle embarrassed I thought.

I tried to like the brighter shorter colour blocked numbers but even those were a mess the cut and proportion of which just weren't flattering or pleasing to the eye. Epic fail all round. Well the set was fun and well done but it just served to make the looks seem even worse.

Kane did manage to succeed in making his eponymous collection look even better. Weird that he can be so off in one incarnation and so on in another.

 

[whippie]

Huh? Is Versus a sub brand of Versace designed by Christopher Kane, every season or just this one? I really love the sexy cut out block colour mini dress's of last season, but I agree with just about everyone. This collection is a little too granny. I like the shoes though.

PS: Thanks to everyone who takes time to post the HQ's and details. Your so nice.

 

[Squizree]

^Yes Versus, is owned by Versace, but its creative director is Kane.

 

[Tentacl Ventricl]

Huh? Is Versus a sub brand of Versace designed by Christopher Kane, every season or just this one? I really love the sexy cut out block colour mini dress's of last season, but I agree with just about everyone. This collection is a little too granny. I like the shoes though.

PS: Thanks to everyone who takes time to post the HQ's and details. Your so nice.

I'm coming back to this collection via the excerpt that Lisa so kindly posted for us. I guess I remain intrigued by it and this question of how I receive Kane's work across the two collections. I agree that the shoes do seem the best aspect at present.

It's interesting Whippie that you should read 'granny'. That's not an association I immediately have here. Would you like to say more about why that's your perception?

Could be the small floral print - perhaps that leads us to associate 'granny' but I'm wondering if it might be that fresh in the collective consciousness is Prada's use of plaid for AW10/11 within a collection that did undoubtedly have an aspect of 'granny chic' albeit twisted. And that therefore plaid has picked up a 'granny' association. A strange place to arrive perhaps but such is the influence of Miuccia.

And that thought led me to another - that you can read this as a sort of 'engagement' with Prada AW10/11.

Whilst Prada's looks drew the eye to the bust as focal point, here Kane undoubtedly draws the eye to the hip as the focal point for the most part. The casting didn't universally lead that way but then neither was Miuccia's casting entirely on one note.

And whilst Prada drew out the womanly, here, particularly in the use of the playground set, Kane seems to be speaking more to the girl. Which is of course what we'd expect from the brand. Even though he doesn't do that in an entirely obvious way with the clothes. But who wants obvious.

So I'm getting the impression that Kane may well have in mind a response to, a dialogue with, a partial deconstruction and reversal of Prada AW10/11.

To attempt a dialogue with Miuccia, to look to be on a level playing field npi with her is quite a risk particularly if your work fails to flatter the form and turns out as badly received as SS11 Versus currently seems to be but I now feel that maybe somewhere there's a key to unlocking this collection that I haven't quite grasped yet.

Anyone able to hand me that key or should I just return to my initial impression that it's awful and beyond redemption. Again, can Kane really be so good and so bad in the same season?

 

[mikeijames]

^this is frequently why fantastic designers maintain their own house even while they design for these storied houses. he's building a look distinct from his own at the house of versus (and behind the scenes at versace), where at his own house he's more free to just experiment "any which way" he can.

 

[Fatalefashion]

Versus - S/S 2011 - Full Show

 

[educo]

It seems that Christopher got his collections muddled up this season. This looks like something he would release under his own label and vice versa.

Couldn't have agreed more!

 

[Petit Lucille]

had this been Miu Miu.. it would be a whole different story.

 

[Squizree]

Just realized where Kane got his print from. Look at Naomi's shorts from Gianni's collection in 1992.

Mitchell Gerber/Corbis

 

[mikeijames]

^"everything old is new again."