Christopher Kane
Designer: Christopher Kane

• “Everything from skirts and coats in blue camouflage prints, barely-decent dresses made of large, lace-like flower and coil designs, and elegant shifts in blue and black velvet.” [AFP]
• “Kane’s latest display was so diverse and included so many creative themes that it seemed like several collections rolled into one.” [AP]
• “A show full of energy, awash in fur, velvet, luxe combat prints and delicious deep plums and purples.” [The Daily Beast]
• “With his new boss, PPR’s Francois-Henri Pinault front and center, Kane debuted a militant collection showcasing his chameleon-like qualities.” [Daily Front Row]
• “Given his small team of 25, and higgledy-piggledly quarters, the size and ambition of this latest collection was astonishing.” [The Daily Telegraph]
• “As the collection(s) built, in complexity and inventiveness, the atmosphere crackled with electricity, just as his fifth and final chapter marched out: a pair of black trousers worn with a t-shirt printed with a multi-coloured image of an MRI scan of a brain–that’s right, a brain–followed by ‘electric shock’ dresses, seemingly fabricated from fine black wires and copper circuit board coils.” [ELLEuk.com]
• “It’s the kind of craftsmanship that literally drops jaws coming down the runway.” [FabSugar]
• “If Christopher Kane is feeling a new kind of pressure now that he’s under the PPR umbrella, his Fall 2013 collection certainly didn’t show it. In fact, the broad-shouldered army he sent down the runway looked pretty darn confident–and tough enough to handle any extra expectations the designer’s new luxury backing might hold.” [fashionologie]
• “”I just wanted to do a really beautiful show,” he said. And that it most certainly was.” [Grazia Daily]
• “This is what grace under pressure looks like.” [The Guardian]
• “‘The brain works in mysterious ways,’ Christopher Kane said after his London Fashion Week show today.” [The Independent]
• “What a fashion brain the designer must have to have conceived all these original ideas, executed them in his tiny East London studio and offered them as a gift to his new owner, François-Henri Pinault, chairman and chief executive of the luxury group PPR.” [International Herald Tribune]
• “Dr. Frankenstein has become something of an unwitting mentor to Christopher Kane.” [Style.com]
• “Christopher Kane never knows where his brain waves come from. Maybe that’s why after his extraordinarily idea-packed collection he was telling people that he’d been looking at an MRI brain scan while his synapses were firing away about camouflage prints, big coats and jackets, kilts, feathers, velvet, and lace.” [Vogue.com]
• “In the past Kane has been noted for his signatureless signature–each time he does something so very different but each time so very brilliant and him–so it made sense to bring all of these chapters together and line them up. And they still made sense.” [Vogue.com UK]
• “Brain-activity scans served as a quirky print on black dresses–and an apt symbol for Kane’s prolific idea factory.” [WWD]