Just-for-Fun Fridays: Christopher Kane Beast Prints
It's no secret that the entire TiC team was anticipating and salivating over the new Christopher Kane x Topshop line. Yesterday's release of the collection saw me heading over to Pavilion at 10.30am to purchase an oversized, ripped and snipped croc top for RM273. Yesterday also saw a plethora of local tweets - some loving, some hating Kane's penchant for beastiality prints. Since it was such a hot topic of debate, I thought I'd open up the comments box for you to voice out this Friday, just for fun.
Donatella Versace compared Kane to her late brother, Gianni, even after he had called her a diva. I suppose that encapsulates Kane's success in high fashion. While he's always been renowned for feminizing tough masculine materials with scalloped edges, Kane has also made sets of beast-printed t-shirts iconic.
Despite their critical acclamation, many pose different opinions to the prints, raging into what I like to call the "Beast Wars". Some find the prints tacky, gaudy and vulgar. Some see them as horribly overpriced (and to be honest, I have seen tees in Sungei Wang for less than a quarter of Kane prices but of course in cheaper workmanship and material). Others see them as art - from the colour selection, to the angle of placement. And some see them as iconic; as a fashion marker of our era.
So what say you? Do you think Kane's t-shirts are the epitome of fierce? A roaring success? Or do you reckon they look like souvenirs you get from the zoo?
[Photo Credits: independent, thelipstickdiaries, twentyteneightyfour, fabsugar]
