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Left: Kylie in one of Kane’s -
student designs. Right: 5
Kane. Far right: dreses from his 2007 and 2006
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His first two collections set London Fashion Week alight, Chloe Sevigny, Kylie and Kate Moss wear his dresses, and he’s still only 24. Kirstin Innes talks to Christopher Kane about
the 19903, Donatella j Versace, and being fashionable in Motherwell
postgraduate from Motherwell. Your work is
I magine you’re a 23-year-old fashion featured in Vogue in an article on student
designers, and then Anna Wintour herself turns up at your degree show. She recommends that you meet Donatella — yes. Versace — and within a
week you’ve been whisked off to Milan. Fast forward 12 months, and you’ve had two highly
acclaimed catwalk shows at London Fashion
Week. you’re working as a consultant for the Versace collection in addition to running your
' own label. and celebrities including Kylie. Kate
Moss and Chloe Sevigny are falling over themselves to get their fingers on your frocks. It’s easy to assume that so much success so
‘ quickly would turn even the best adjusted
twenty-something into a petulant brat. but
: Christopher Kane, currently one of the hottest ; designers in the fashion firmament. is almost : disturbineg down-to-earth and even humble.
And he‘s still only 24. Kane is relaxing in his London studio/flat after a hectic few weeks. The exclusive collection he