Posts Tagged ‘Christopher Kane’
Gallery, Trend Alert
By Andrea Petrou on January 12th, 2012
Every Spring/Summer we see an abundance of pastels adorning the highstreet and this upcoming season is no different.
However 2012′s take on this traditional trend is all about sheer, soft fabrics as well as feathers in pretty dresses, skinny suits and shift frocks.
Mulberry opted for yellow as its key colour while pale blues were a favourite at Ralph Lauren and Lanvin. Givenvhy showed off pastel pinks, while Christopher Kane went for bolder satins.
Hurry up summer we can’t wait to parade our pastels.
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Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on November 29th, 2011
Alexa Chung always looks “phenomenal”, according to designer Christopher Kane.
The TV presenter-and-model wore one of Christopher’s creations to last night’s British Fashion Awards and he says he was thrilled when he saw it on her.
He told Grazia: “I think Alexa looks pretty hot tonight actually. She’s wearing the last look from the [Spring/Summer 2012] show.
“It was just one of those things. She contacts me, she wanted to wear something so it’s great. She looks phenomenal, she always does.”
And it seems Alexa’s efforts paid off as she won the British Style Award, brought to you by Vodafone, for the second year running and she admits she was very flattered with the accolade.
Talking about the award – which is the only one voted for by the British public – Alexa said: “It’s just nice that I’m still relevant in 2011, isn’t it? I thought 2010 was a big one but now it’s got better.
I think this is the only one that the public voted for so it’s such an honour, it’s crazy, it’s so nice.”
Alexa beat nominees including Adele, Daisy Lowe, Florence Welch, Lara Stone, Stella McCartney and Tilda Swinton.
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Christmas outfits, dresses, Features, Gallery
By Andrea Petrou on November 23rd, 2011
We’ve gone all starry eyed for today’s Christmas party outfit ideas bringing you a great range of star print frocks and accessories to make sure you really twinkle at this year’s events.
Thanks to the 80s influences this season and the likes of House of Holland and Christopher Kane making them key pieces in their AW 2011 collections, stars are hot this season.
Choose from a printed frock, which can be worn with heels for an evening look, or go for something that stands out a bit more with a sequined number.
Those who want to make more a subtle entrance can also opt for a pair of star print tights or simple accessories, which give a nod to this trend.
See the gallery below for our best picks.
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Designers, News
By Andrea Petrou on May 25th, 2011
Christopher Kane loves “obnoxious” neon.
The 28-year-old designer featured the fluorescent colours in lace trims on his recent spring/summer women’s collection and says he always loves using a lot of colour in his creations, though it can be difficult.
He said: “There’s this idea that British people don’t like colour but I think they do. I love neon. It’s so man-made and loud and obnoxious but that’s why I gravitate towards it. It gives you a total high when you work with it.
“The dyes were a nightmare, though. It was a tough one but we got there in the end. We just had to keep dyeing and trying.”
Christopher has headed up Venus, Versace’s second line for two years and he admits he still finds it “weird” working with the fashion house’s head Donatella Versace, because he has admired her for so long.
He told the Evening Standard newspaper: “You do need to tap yourself when you’re with her.
“It was quite weird after being a kid, growing up and idolising Versace, and then ‘boom’ – you’re thrown into the dressing room backstage. But Donatella puts you at ease. She’s great that way. I’ve learned so much from working at Versace. You start to learn from them and it seeps into your own business.”
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Designers, News
By Andrea Petrou on May 24th, 2011
Christopher Kane has designed a range of black cabs for Vodafone.
The British designer has combined the Union Jack flag with the signature celestial prints from his Spring/Summer Resort 2011 collection to create a unique makeover for the 100 taxis which took to the streets yesterday and are fitted with mobile phone chargers and a new system enabling customers to pay by text message.
Christopher said: “The black cab is such an iconic part of London’s landscape. I am honoured to have the opportunity to put my own distinctive stamp on it. Looking forward to seeing one on the street and hailing it down!”
Vodafone Director of Brand Marketing, Danielle Crook, added: “Christopher Kane was the perfect choice for this design partnership as he always pushes the boundaries to produce eye popping couture that will be sought after worldwide. These new Vodafone cabs ensure Londoners can always stay in touch with friends and family on the go, whilst also bringing a touch of high fashion to the streets of London.”
Christopher – who was previously named as the winner of the British Fashion Council/Vogue Fashion Fund – is no stranger to unusual works, revealing his London Fashion Week show in February was inspired by lollipops and pencils cases.
He said: “This will be known as ‘The liquid collection.’ It was inspired by the pencil cases I had at school and lollipops. But we didn’t want it to be over elaborate – we wanted it to be about really wearable, sophisticated clothes.
“It’s more minimal than anything I’ve done before. But it’s time for a change. No more lace or any of that. I didn’t want any decoration.”
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Designer Fashions, Designers, Gallery, London fashion week
By Andrea Petrou on March 22nd, 2011
By Emily Borrett.
Christopher Kane Spring/Summer 2007
We’ve already looked at the likes of Henry Holland and Vivienne Westwood in our designer spotlight galleries, celebrating the great British talent that dazzles us at London Fashion Week each season and inspires what gets produced on the high-street. So today we’re going to look at home-grown talent Christopher Kane, who has been wowing us at LFW with his body-conscious, sexy designs since 2007.then
Ever since he exploded onto the fashion scene with a youthful, fresh and sexy collection of microscopically short bandage dresses, trimmed with neon lace and zips, he’s been the darling of the fashion industry ever since. Cited as an inspiration by young wannabe designers everywhere and hand-picked by Versace to design their diffusion line, Versus, his career has been a total fairytale so far. With the help of his sister Tammy Kane, together they’ve created a legacy.
Neon lace, cosmically starry prints, knife pleats and gingham – these are all trends that you saw at Christopher Kane first. In the gallery above we’re taking a trip back through his best collections to show you our favourite pieces that he’s designed. Our favourite is the floral-embroidered leather miniskirt – check it out here.
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Designers, dresses, Gallery
By Andrea Petrou on January 11th, 2011
By Emily Borrett.
The party season may be over, but that’s no reason to stop wearing our best, flirtiest dresses. And they don’t come much flirtier at the moment than the skater dress silhouette. It’s a shape that British designer Christopher Kane made famous last year with his ultra luxe designs for Versus, which showed at Milan Fashion Week (see above). In jewel-bright silks of red and bright blue, with nipped-in waists and hemlines that barely covered the models’ knickers, it was a disgustingly gorgeous look which was coveted by every fashionista worth their salt. And it’s still going to carry on going strong this year, as Erdem showed us their red and white lace dresses in the same shape for Fashion Week.
Whether or not you’re as leggy as a gazelle, this is a dress that can work well for you. It has the power to give curves where there are none, and accentuate curves even more when there are already plenty. If you’re tall and skinny, the dress will show off your pins to perfection, so keep your legs bare and glossy. However, if you’re smaller and curvier and not so confident about your legs, stick to a skater dress in a darker colour and team it with opaque tights and heels to flatter your legs nicely.
On the catwalk - those skater dresses from Christopher Kane for Versus
Tags: Christopher Kane, flattering, party looks, skater dress, spring/summer, Trend Alert, Versus
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Designer Fashions, Features, Gallery
By Andrea Petrou on December 21st, 2010
Christopher wowed us with lace with his AW2101 collection
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Tags: Christopher Kane, designer of the year, florals, leather dresses, SS2011 trends, winter trends
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Designer collaborations, Designer Fashions, dresses, Gallery, Milan Fashion Week
By Andrea Petrou on September 28th, 2010
By Emily Borrett.
Christopher Kane’s SS2011 collection, shown at LFW last week, was always going to be a hard act to follow. But the Brit designer has outdone himself in the S/S clothes for Donatella Versace’s diffusion line Versus, which graced catwalks at Milan Fashion Week.
Everyone’s favourite fashion Glaswegian is a big fan of slightly perverse, little-girly Lolita styling, as we saw last Spring in the form of lots of babydoll dresses in gingham, with some very high side-splits that were practically knicker-flashing. It’s no surprise then that the Versus show this week saw models sent down the catwalk looking like they were getting fitted for their summer boarding school uniforms. The catwalk was decorated to look like a school playground – it even had swings. Mr. Kane is a very cheeky man.
He’s graduated from little-girl gingham to Catholic-school plaid for Versus’ SS2011 collection, as shown in the little flirty-skirted dresses that we’ve come to know and love from the designer. Just pop on some knee socks and a straw boater and hey ho, the perfect playtime outfit. Worked into the plaid fabrics were cute tiny floral prints that helped the collection progress to a more summery atmosphere, while flashes of bold pinstripes kept the “head girl” look going strong. My personal favourite from the collection was the separates outfit (picture 9 of 12 in the gallery) which showed off some adorable floral capris, a matching cardi complete with a vivid pink school badge and – this is Christopher Kane we’re talking about – an incredibly sheer black blouse worn underneath for more than a cheeky flash of skin.
Donatella, you made a good choice when you asked Christopher to design for you. Keep Versus coming at us – we can’t wait to see AW2011.
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Designer Fashions, Designers, dresses, Gallery, London fashion week
By Andrea Petrou on September 20th, 2010
By Emily Borrett.
Christopher Kane showed us at Fashion Week today just exactly why he’s one of the country’s favourite current designers. The fashion world’s only just getting over his disgustingly gorgeous, flower-embroidered leather collection and then BOOM! - along comes SS2011 to make us all dribble and ache with clothes lust.
Kane’s choice of colour in his designs have all been a bit “femme fatale” and gothy of late, with lots of wine reds and dark sumptuous leathers, but he seems to have revisited old collections for inspiration for this coming Spring. For those of you that remember, his explosion onto the fashion scene was a riot of traffic-stopping neon brights, sheer lace and as much bodycon as a girl can handle. It was the one good thing to come out of 2006′s “New Rave” phase – everybody wanted one of those dresses. Now Kane’s gone back to having fun with colours similar to those that we first saw on his catwalks, but with a more grown-up twist. Instead of tight crotch-skimming dresses that are only suitable for giraffes and the under-21s, hemlines are soft, floaty and just above the knee. Very ladylike and true to the current 1960s trend – but in eye-watering neon fabrics, it’s far from old-fashioned.
If I have my way I’ll be wearing his dresses to tea parties next Spring. Which I probably won’t. But a girl can dream.
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Gallery, Trend Alert
By Andrea Petrou on September 9th, 2010
Love them or loathe them gilets have flown right into the 21st century from the 80s, thanks to the emergence of the fur and leather trends that have been showcased by a range of designers .
Burberry vouldbe to blame for the reintroduction of the aviator look, while we could also point the finger at Marc Jacobs for all his fur festishes.
Those who love these little items of clothing however, will rejoice in the fact that this year these come in a range of different fabrics symbolising different trends. The highstreet is packed full of leather gilet’s symbolising the biker trend, while denim gilets are still lurking around from the summer season.
The key way to wear this trend is to layer up. Wear over a tee for the not so cold days and team up over cute dresses to create the 40s boho look. We’ve picked out our top five.
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Features, Gallery, Trend Alert
By Andrea Petrou on September 7th, 2010
Ladies, get ready to preen and pout, because this season’s going out look is all about decadence. That’s right, the opulence trend is making a comeback.
This decadent trend takes it’s influence from the Victorian era incorporating lace, jewels, velvet, feathers and brocade and the more detailing the better. Paul Costelloe, Miu Miu, Christopher Kane and Max Mara were just some of the designers who sent their models down the a/w 2010 catwalk in this trend.
So how do you wear this regal style?
Firstly consider the colours. Jewel tones, mauves, black and berry are all key in this trend, as are accessories, which should be piled on. Think belts, headbands, earrings and chunky necklaces and bracelets.
We’ve picked out our top five key pieces for this trend.
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Tags: A/W 2010 trends, brocade, Christopher Kane, decadence, lace, Miu Miu. royalty, Opulance, velvet
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