Britain’s biggest fashion star began studying the body as a child by drawing his sisters. Now, life drawings and art therapy inspire his latest collections
Christopher Kane is quoting Winston Churchill to me. This is not how I thought this interview would go. Kane is the brightest star of British fashion, Donatella Versace’s Glaswegian golden boy, a 33-year-old who takes inspiration from bondage and his school science textbooks and wins every fashion award going.
We are here to talk about his art-inspired autumn /winter collection, Lovers’ Lace, and about the life-drawing class he is hosting at his Mayfair boutique this week to celebrate Frieze. We are expressly not here to talk about the tough year he has had personally, having lost his mother in February; his team have politely asked me not to broach this, and so I have just offered up a gingerly worded question about how, as a designer whose collections always been very personal, he has coped with the pressures of work this year.
Jeremy Irons is so hot in that film it’s unbelievable. It was amazing. A bit, you know, sado
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