Excerpt: CHRISTOPHER KANE. READY-TO-WEAR FALL 2022 - LONDON FASHION WEEK

 

"After a year of pandemic hiatus away from the runway, Christopher Kane keeps his look books alive and well within this tumultuous world we live in, as of writing this review of Kane's latest showing, the Russian President Vladimir Putin has just ordered an invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign country, as the spectra of both a new Cold War and an attempt of redefining European borders once more with brute force has returned, akin to Nazi Germany when it invaded Poland in 1939.  We may be witnessing something very dark enveloping the world once again.  Yet, sexuality, to which Kane has always represented in a matured and intellectual way, runs parallel to destruction as seen in esoteric Buddhism and Hinduism; we are intrinsically attached to sex, life and death.  The tension and fear of death, whether externally or internally felt may indeed lead to an urgency of the eros, as noted with psychologists Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron's study in 1974 to assay their term of a 'misattribution of arousal'.  A famous thought experiment which tests the intrinsic relationship of dread and its last gasp intimacy, which had men crossing a swaying suspension bridge in an effort to reach the other side where an attractive woman was standing.   Subsequently, it did indeed inspire men who crossed the bridge, to give the woman waiting their phone numbers, in comparison, of the same experiment on a more stable bridge, the outcome was not as prolific.

And it is Kane's experiment with the aesthetics of sexuality that has always shown a deep respect toward the feminine, more so in its intricacy and detailing which exudes a passionate display.  To which his latest offering represents a further step towards mastering the eros without its gaudy and cheap arrays that some luxury brands, when portraying amorous styles, can fall into an overly sexualized trap. Kane has obviously honed his styles over the years, making his Fall 2022..."

Full review: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/03/christopher-kane-ready-to-wear-fall.html

(A.Glass 2022)

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Resort 2023 review soon.