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Christopher Kane’s showed that inspiration knows no bounds, not least because the designer saw Planet of the Apes, The Flintstones and One Million Years B.C. and felt the bones – or should that be scales – of his next collection, which was surely one of the most yabadabadooo of London Fashion Week. The distillate was the stegosaurus-style ‘scales’ in leather or organza, the gorilla print, marabou trims and the stone-age animal print. How such elements can produce both wearable and desirable womenswear is anyone’s guess, but Kane makes it work. Although he has a strong creative partnership with his sister Tammy, even she said “When he started saying ‘prehistoric’, I said ‘What? I don’t know what you’re talking about.’” But this evolved into a collection which conveyed exactly what he meant. Business – both in the commercial sense of pleasing his customers, and in the artistic pursuit of an idea to fruition. If the collection’s reception is anything to go by, Kane is carving out a very bankable name for himself.
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