Posts Tagged ‘Christopher Kane’

We always love what gamine girl Carey Mulligan wears, but we REALLY love this Christopher Kane black dress with multi colored jeweled stones texturizing it. It fit her fine frame fabulously, and just looked very very chic – and very non-Hollywood and fashion forward. She’s not trying to be a vixen, she’s trying to be the modern Audrey Hepburn – and doing a damn good job! No wonder this thin fragile girl is sort of like the new fresh Jean Seberg – she’s the anti-bombshell, more porcelain than bomb casing. Christopher Kane is an interesting choice for a dress to the Spirit Awards. He hasn’t dressed that many actresses. And we did NOT love his new collection for Donatella Versace’s Versus line – very S & M dressing. But this dress is one we’d like to own. It’s very Prada 2006.

“Harry Potter” star Emma Watson appeared on The David Letterman show on Wednesday night, promoting the sixth Harry Potter film, “The Half Blood Prince,” and talking about how she’d had a “small wardrobe malfunction” in her Ossie Clark vintage gown at the premier (Letterman had a shot of her dress blowing open to reveal her white undies.) But there was no wardrobe malfunction on the set of Letterman – the 19 year old young English actress wore a fabulous Christoper Kane ecru dress an invisible overlay bonded in black – and how cool of her to wear a British designer. Her skyscraper gold and black heeled shoes were by Charlotte Olympia, the toast of the London shoe designers – but on her way to the Letterman show, she donned flat two tone black and pink oxford tie up shoes, which are the hottest thing in Europe this summer. They’re meant to be a big deal in the U.S. by this fall – a more masculine footwear than we’ve seen in some time.

Loads of feminists have been saying this for years – chic women, too – but when ALT says it in Vogue, it carries weight. Big weight.

 

And of course, the recession plays a hand (or a foot) in this – how cool does it look to be teetering on skinny $800 dollar shoes right now? Not very. Not when women working so hard to make a living.

 

The NY Times says designer Christopher Kane opened his fall runway show with his ladies wearing flat oxfords – and the Calvin Klein resort show used flat lace-ups. And apparently, in Britain – where so many great street-style looks always start – men’s style shoes, like oxfords, are what women are wearing with summer dresses. This is the hot new London street look. You know what THAT means . . . in two months, look out, LaCienega!

 

The hot brand of this style for women is a company called Dieppa Restrepo shoes, handmade in Mexico, and sold at Steven Alan, and at dieggarestrepo.com, for about $200. They’re in several colors, and you can even order them wingtipped.

 

Comfortable chic shoes coming back?

 

All we can say is – IT’S SO ABOUT TIME!

 

Yohji and Commes des Garcons have been showing shoes like this with incredibly complicated clothes – forever. Can’t women just be comfortable and cool in this new working-harder climate?

A sheer black cocktail look by Christopher Kane at London Fashion Week spring 09.

 

 

 

A yellow leather ruffled skirt by Christopher Kane at London Fashion Week spring 09.