It's very fascinating for me to watch a young designer who is allowed is creative freedom to grow. Christopher Kane has been showing at London Fashion Week for a couple of seasons now, first starting with an incredible collection that looked as if Gianni Versace and Herve Leger had a child and decided to mash both of their design asthetics together to dress the future. Since then, he's shown everything from prairy girls in shadow plaids, to Planet of the Apes dresses and, in his resort 2010 collection, showing atom bomb cloud prints on dresses and jackets. I am really intrigued by his blend of inspirations and love that he's created a vocabulary for himself. This is what every major designer does for themselves, but I don't think I've seen it fully evolve the way it has for him. For Spring 2010, Christopher Kane showed a very interesting mix of plaid dressing, cutout dresses and separates, and a mix of body con dressing along with pieces that were more subdued and had an inderlying sexuality to them, very much along the lines of what Prada would do. He took all of his previous collections, mashed them up, and moved his vocabulary forward. It was refreshing, but at the same time another piece to his puzzle.
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