Christopher Kane Spring 2011 Show

Christopher Kane Spring 2011 Show
Time: September 20, 2010 at 3:30pm
Location: EC1
Casting Director: Russell Marsh

Jessica Hart


Jourdan Dunn

Christopher Kane Spring 2011 Show

Christopher Kane Spring 2011 Show
Time: September 20, 2010 at 3:30pm
Location: EC1
Casting Director: Russell Marsh

Jessica Hart


Jourdan Dunn

Christopher Kane fall 2010 show

Christopher Kane fall 2010 Show
Time: February 22, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Location: Topshop Venue, Flower Cellars, 4-6 Russell Street, WC2E 7BN
Casting Director: Russell Marsh

Kristy Kaurova

I saw a documentary about the Jonestown mass suicides in Guyana in 1978,so I started thinking about religious cultism

...and the movie Lolita. I loved Jeremy Irons' tailored vest in the remake

Nancy Reagan on the White House lawn

In this May 14, 1984, file photo, Michael Jackson , center, stands with President Ronald Reagan, left, and first lady Nancy Reagan on the south lawn of the White House prior to receiving an award from the president for his contribution to the drunk driving awareness program.


President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan at White House on July 12, 1986 en route to Camp David, Maryland.


President and Mrs. Reagan returning to the White House from Camp David, 1982.

Christopher Kane Spring 2010 Show - Beauty

"I saw a documentary about the Jonestown mass suicides in Guyana in 1978,so I started thinking about religious cultism," he said. "But that only happened at
the end. I was also looking at a photo of Nancy Reagan on the White House lawn, and the movie Lolita. I loved Jeremy Irons' tailored vest in the remake. So that's where the suiting came from."

- Christopher Kane

Dorothea Barth Jorgensen

Christopher Kane Spring 2010 Show

Christopher Kane Spring 2010 Show
Time: September 21, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Location: Topshop Venue, P3 University of Westminster, Luxborough St, NW1
Casting Director: Russell Marsh

Dorothea Barth Jorgensen

Christopher Kane Fall 2009 Show

Christopher Kane Fall 2009 Show
Time: February 22, at 12:45pm
Location: Topshop Venue
Casting Director: Russell Marsh

Yulia Kharlapanova


Jourdan Dunn

Isa Asklof at Christopher Kane Spring 2009 show

Isa Asklof at Christopher Kane Spring 2009 show:

Isa begins at 3:05 on the complete video of the show

Christopher Kane Inspiration

From style.com:

It takes a unique mind to watch Planet of the Apes and use it to start a fashion collection, but that's where Christopher Kane jumped off for Spring. He liked the apes' leather tunics. "It was that, and then The Flintstones, Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C., and then Dian Fossey and her gorillas," ....he worked in bright animal-spot "Flintstone" cashmeres (made at Johnstons in Kane's native Scotland), photo-prints of Digit the gorilla, and finally, some suggestive marabou trimming on chiffon...

Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932, San Francisco, California – December 26, 1985, Virunga Mountains, Rwanda) was an American zoologist who completed an extended study of eight gorilla groups.

In 1967, she founded the Karisoke Research Centre, a remote rainforest camp nestled in the Virunga Mountains in Ruhengeri province, Rwanda. When her photograph, taken by Bob Campbell, appeared on the cover of National Geographic Magazine in January 1970, Fossey became an international celebrity, bringing massive publicity to her cause of saving the mountain gorilla from extinction, as well as convincing the general public that gorillas are not as bad as they are sometimes depicted in movies and books. Photographs showing the gorilla "Peanuts" touching Fossey's hand depicted the first recorded peaceful contact between a human being and a wild gorilla. Her extraordinary rapport with animals and her background as an occupational therapist brushed away the Hollywood "King Kong" myth of an aggressive, savage beast.

Dian Fossey established a gorilla graveyard at Karisoke for apes killed by poachers. Despite her efforts and those of the government patrols, carcasses turned up from time to time, and the graveyard grew--each plot marked by a stubby pole topped with a board on which Fossey painted the name she had given the animal.

On Jan. 1, 1978, an assistant found the corpse of Fossey's beloved Digit, by then a young silverback 10 years old. His head, heart and hands and feet had been removed. A dead dog found at the site—apparently killed by Digit before he was himself speared to death—was identified as belonging to Munyarukiko, the infamous poacher.

The seminal event prompted Fossey to change the focus of her work. She essentially abandoned academic research in favor of gorilla advocacy--what she came to call "active conservation." She founded the Digit Fund to pay for her work.

Fossey offered a cash bounty on Digit's killers and threatened the government with an anti-tourism poster featuring photos of the ape's mutilated corpse above the slogan, "Come Visit Me in Rwanda." She ordered her student researchers to begin carrying guns.

Not long after the killing, her African employees captured a local tribesman who admitted that Munyarukiko's clan was responsible--although Fossey acknowledged that she and her men had hogtied the man and "examined him very, very, very thoroughly." The tribesman said Munyarukiko had been paid the equivalent of $20 for Digit's body parts.

Dian Fossey is interred at a site in Rwanda that she herself had constructed for her dead gorilla friends. She was buried in the gorilla graveyard next to Digit, and near many gorillas killed by poachers.

Portions of her life story were later adapted as the film Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, starring Sigourney Weaver as Fossey.

Christopher Kane Spring 2009

Yulia Kharlapanova


Katrin Thormann


Kasia Struss

Christopher Kane Spring 2009 Preview

Katrin Thormann

Inspiration

Heathers poster:


Daiane Conterato at Christopher Kane Spring 2008:


Christopher Kane Spring 2008 video:



Heathers clip with Winona Ryder wearing loose grey jacket & blue tiered skirt.


Christopher Kane's spring 2008 collection was inspired by the 1980's movies he would watch with his sister Tammy: "It was the pair of us sitting on the sofa watching late-night horror films like Carrie," said Kane. "And Crocodile Dundee." The two movies set him off thinking about chiffon and eerie suspended ruffles on the one hand, washed-out denim and snakeskin vests on the other.

This collection was my favorite from spring 2008 - everything about it was flawless - the soft shapes, the flowing hair, the chrome tipped boots, the casting & the soundtrack. The 35 looks summed up exactly the correct way to dress, iron your hair & not wear makeup for this summer.

Daiane Conterato opened the show wearing a loose grey jacket and tiered blue skirt - just like Winona Ryder wore in my favorite 1980's movie: Heathers. Specifically, the scene where Winona's character Veronica Sawyer gets revenge on two date rapists. Christopher Kane made the skirt longer & slouchier. The loose grey jacket is more tough & motorcycle, not at all Limited. Instead of a black tank, Christopher Kane paired the look with a white schoolboy shirt. Contrarily, this make the look more seductive, more remarkable, more modern.

Heathers 20th anniversary edition DVD is now available at amazon.com.