Monday, September 17: Christopher Kane
Designer: Christopher Kane

• “[A] captivatingly decadent narrative from start to finish.” {Daily Front Row}
• “There was the occasional veer towards the borderline conventional–a fitted slatey dress was decorated by three small-to-big bows down the thorax–but mostly Kane revelled in his mad-scientist scheming.” {The Daily Telegraph}
• “This collection, as inspired as it was grown up, as confident as it was beautiful, put Kane on a level with the best. Miuccia and Raf, watch out.” {ELLEuk.com}
• “Quirky touches added a undeniably unique touch to Kane’s feminine assortment.” {FabSugar}
• “A casual observer of Christopher Kane’s Spring 2013 show might not believe it was inspired by Dr. Frankenstein’s monster–until he or she saw the nuts and bolts holding some of its dresses together, that is.” {fashionologie}
• “This collection was Christopher Kane at his off-kilter finest.” {Grazia Daily Magazine}
• “T[ook] a bow motif, that symbol of don’t-frighten-the-horses ladylike dressing, as the starting point for something bold and sculptural.” {The Guardian}
• “Glamorously modern clothes that are conceptual, cool and comfortable.” {The Independent}
• “The kiss of the modern woman is what Mr. Kane bestows on his collections. He has a keen sense of elegance, but also a dark side. This season that contrast was so deftly interspersed with a couture, bow-trim elegance that the result was compelling.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “A truly awe inspiring collection–even by Kane’s masterful high standards.” {London Evening Standard}
• “Mr. Kane’s designs often incorporate childlike gestures, but this time they were strictly part of the seductive packaging, and not at the expense of his very grownup, imaginative fashion. … The clothes had all the lines of sensible classics, but the strange fabric got under your skin.” {On The Runway/The New York Times}
• “Always forward in his fashions,Mr. Kane took everyday items that would be familiar to any young girl and made them into a wardrobe for an urban woman.” {Speakeasy/The Wall Street Journal}
• “As beautiful and sophisticated as the clothes he showed today were, he’s happy to drop a tragic, misbegotten monster into the mix. That dichotomy is where his enchantment lies.” {Style.com}
• “Genius is in the illogical impulses that drive creativity–and whether the results communicate the kind of electrical impulse in a woman’s brain that tells her, ‘Wow. Weird,’ and then a second later: ‘And I want it.’ Suffice to say, Kane’s runway sequence delivered that visceral effect in wave after wave of cleverly sequenced variety.” {Vogue.com}
• “There’s no doubting Kane and what he can come up with next–it’s a constant surprise and always clever, which is the nuts and bolts, really, of a great designer.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “An unlikely fashion hero–from his neck bolt to his unwieldy footwear–Frankenstein got the full runway treatment, thanks to daring fashion scientist Christopher Kane.” {WWD}