Shes like a Faberge egg!
Kane laughed, admiring a model shimmering in a neck-to-thigh smothering of silvery rhinestone mesh.
Strips of chain mail twinkled around her bodice.
A crystal zipper tag swung at her neck.
Frilled white lace ankle socks matched the ruffles circling her bodice and hips.
The aforementioned Faberge dress: 650.
The socks: 30.
This was Hans idea, said Kane.
He said, Lets go for it!
Han Chong is the owner of Self-Portrait, the mega-selling phenomenon he set up in London in 2013.
I didnt want to do a transactional collaboration like others, he said.
Chong was circulating delightedly around the pre-drinks fashion-show chaos.
I just had a spontaneous feeling about Christophers work, he shrugged.
He celebrates femininity, and thats what Self-Portrait is always about.
And the timings rightweve had enough quiet luxury!
There arent any direct actual replicas from the first collection, he points out.
That exhibition jogged a lot of peoples memories.
Ive had a lot of celebrities asking to borrow from the archive since then.
Chong gave the Kanes studio space to work out of Self-Portraits extensive headquarters in Londons Clerkenwell.
He didnt want anything watered-down.
He said, Well make it work.
I have factories and facilities in Asia.
The quality is profoundly brilliant.
It just feels like theyve been hand-made because theyre so detailed.
I was like, Wow.
Instead of his original neons, hes chosen sweet baby pastels to chime with Self-Portraits signature palette.
Its funny to remember how Kanes first collection came as a gleefully sensational fashion shocker.
Funny, too, to think that a whole new generation will now be dancing around in his clothes.
