Christopher Kane - Resort 2024

(Images:  Christopher Kane 2023)

Christopher Kane's current fixation with the late 1970's and 1980's analog inspired lookbook with its VHS nostalgia, continues on.  As noted with my Pre-Fall 2023 review and so does his long standing cultivation of the Eros, offering Kane's sophistication and creativity in defining sexuality is one of the nondualist, despite his collections being of the feminine.  With Kane's creative concepts aside, his reiteration of his signature styles maintain that enticing representation of the hedonistic 70's, whilst touching upon the early 80's video-esque charm.  

The 80's trend has been persistent through out the last five years, resurfacing as an appealing timeline that some designers have retained as a nostalgia for its bygone attributions.  Kane has kept the said themes by redefining the simulacrum of four decades ago, into a contemporary show piece.  Much like a parallel history lesson, infused with elements of 1920's styles, which once again, reflects an era of hedonism.  

However, Kane's Resort 2024 styles hold a more serious tone and daren't I say darker array, as opposed to his prior collections.  The 1960's open love and utopian aesthetics from past runways shows, have been replaced with a sleeker and more defined stylizations with his recent lookbooks.  Which maybe indicative of a world facing a tumultuous shift after the COVID pandemic, and this visual reflection has been seen with other designers that have embarked on delivering a somber impression with their 2023 and 2024 collections.    

Dreamlike and ethereal.  From slip dresses, miniskirts and draped asymmetrical hemlines, mixed with the Kane's lingerie outwear styles.  His latest collection offers a glimpse into reverie, which could also be for the one viewing.  An attainment of a time time, although long gone, is still tantalizing in its perspective.  As that desire for a renewed counterculture, which remains chimeric in its possibility.  Kane's visionally expression, for the time being will have to be suffice. 

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(A.Glass 2023)