Fashion Week

First Look: Christopher Kane

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When it debuted this morning on the London catwalk, you could tell pretty instantly that it was part of a much bigger thread, the one that spins from British and Scottish sewing traditions of needlepoint, weaving, and - well, lots of sheep.

The difference is that Kane intersperses the fuzz with metal embellishments, with sequins, with really cinched waists that cut into his cableknits. The effect is cool, and tribal, and a little bit unsexy - not a bad thing when the current trend is to look, somehow, like your outfit has either imploded, exploded, or both.

There was also some very cool string art happening, strewn across the bodices in patterns that looked like dream catchers, but also like a quantum physics charts where galaxies collide with time, and love can’t stack up to gas and light years and infinity - but it was all contained in the space between one breast and the other.

So the yarn / string / wool theme is one reason for the Spindle Collection, but the other is this:

The models looked like needles with haystack hair. We support every designer’s right to create their own vision, but we really like the vision better when it includes spaghetti, 1 % milk, and avocados.

That said, we appreciated Liya Kebede because she had both the best skin and the best walk of any girl there, and she was 10 years older than most of them - exactly the right age to actually wear a Christopher Kane gown.

—AMAZING PHOTOS, AS ALWAYS, FROM MORGAN O’DONOVAN

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Comments

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posted by queendistructo

Feb 12, 2008 4:54PM

The only thing that is Spindlely is their limbs.

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posted by louis

Feb 12, 2008 5:06PM

mmm... avocados....

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posted by doll

Feb 12, 2008 5:14PM

I'm not a huge fan of those first few looks...

But the dresses should be mine.

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posted by guest

Feb 12, 2008 5:15PM

these designers crack me up with their weird, ugly, "artsy" outfits they put on their runways, which later sell for thousands of dollars. i wouldn't wear any of that stuff if you paid me...

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posted by guest

Feb 12, 2008 5:39PM

"The models looked like light caught between cave crags, so thin and pale and translucent that they looked like needles with haystack hair."

uh, so, which did they look like? I predict lots of purple prose and mixed metaphors this season...

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posted by guest

Feb 12, 2008 6:09PM

looks like someone did their casting from the EDU...

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posted by guest

Feb 12, 2008 7:55PM

and when you said "British and Scottish sewing traditions," i assume that was a joke and you know that scottish is also british, and that british isn't synonymous with english.
easy mistake. just saying...

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posted by guest

Feb 12, 2008 11:09PM

i don't think i'd wear any of it, except the grey dress above the red one, but it's definitely original. i like it.

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posted by houseofholland

Feb 13, 2008 9:21AM

The best collection thus far!

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