Images: Top - Christopher Kane SS'07. Bottom - Demna Gvasalia AW'07.
Amidst a world that is the fashion industry, where “flavour of the month”, “what’s in…” and “that is totally last season” are constantly berated, there is always a very select few shining stars in each season.
In very recent times it seems the name all over most Vogue Editor’s lips is the British designer Christopher Kane. Hailing from Scotland and the ever infamous Central Saint Martins College, Kane has graduated with flying colours, won the Harrods design awards for his graduate collection, shown at London Fashion Week and has featured in British, French, Australian and who knows how many countless other Vogue editorials. To add to his ever-growing resume, he consults for the house of Versace and is collaborating with Manolo Blahnik as well. It seems that his first collection of elasticised-neon-coloured-micro-mini dresses has launched this designer on to the universal fashion stage.
Another one to watch is Demna Gvasalia, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Antwerp, and another “Belgian designer” to watch. He won the ITS3 fashion contest in Trieste a few years ago, and showed recently at the Milan Fashion week with his menswear collection. It is truly good to see menswear, especially in Milan fashion week, that is different and a breath of fresh air to the collections’ styles. Gvasalia collection was one of “futuristic layerings” of textiles and shapes. A star truly to watch out for.
To succeed and exist in fashion history’s stratosphere is truly a hard ask, but who knows what the future holds for these shining stars of the fashion industry.
