Scottish designer Christopher Kane presented an in-fucking-credible collection at London Fashion Week yesterday, pounding the runway with conservative silhouettes crossed with a stark, blazing, tactile sexuality.
Kane—who, according to the show notes, wanted “a feeling of attraction and sensuality in the collection”—took his team to a life drawing class to create a series of nudes that would anchor the clothes.
The last looks in the collection, below, are the lovely results of those life drawing classes. Panels of swiss lace (or “lover’s lace,” as Kane has dubbed it) are superimposed, in these first two looks, onto lurex dance dresses. The anatomically correct nature of the forms, who in some cases appear to embrace their wearer, seem to be a kind of response to the Rick Owens Dick Dress Maelstrom of January 2015—this is maybe not so much the second iteration of a new #genitalia trend, as Style.com has hypothesized, but a gentle reminder that the human body doesn’t have to appear ridiculous.
Even as the designer plays with different silhouettes, the necklines remain high as ever. That sweatshirt is the bomb.
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