Christopher Kane presented his Fall 2016 collection on Monday during London Fashion Week. Shown at the Tate Modern, the designer’s collection had a certain Grey Gardens-ish spirit, pulling together ideas of faded beauty and deconstruction with Kane signatures like florals and plastic. Sarah Mower’s full review of the collection will be live soon—in the meantime, find eight talking point from the show here.
1. Show notes on guests’ seats spoke of ideas of “expired beauty” and “recluses and the image of the outsider making their own world by hoarding things away.” The show note packages also include three of Kane’s logo zip ties.
2. Samantha Cameron sat front row, wearing a Mary Katrantzou dress.
3. The opening look may have been a relatively conservative beige coat, but the rest of the collection was positively electric, with neons, florals, and feathers arriving in droves.
4. Models sported plastic bonnets made by Stephen Jones.
5. Kane introduced monogram intarsia sweaters with a gothic K on the front.
6. Flat boots came with feather trimming, some of which crept up the models’ shins.
7. Cocktail dresses were dripping—quite literally—with gems and rhinestones.
8. The show closed with ribbon frocks coming apart at the seams, dotted with floral embroideries and tassel trim.
