British designer Christopher Kane now in India

British designer brand Christopher Kane has made its India debut in Mumbai at Le Mill, a concept store that stocks the best of international designer brands such as Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Balmain and Valentino. Starting this week, Le Mill started retailing Kane’s wide range of offerings including its cruise collection.

The 2016 resort collection is inspired by the seemingly child-like terrain of the love heart which is mixed with its graphic pop appeal. “The starting point was our Lovers Lace and it was a natural progression to the love heart as the icon and motif of this collection. The love heart seems so simple and pure, almost child-like, but powerful and graphic.

“There are those two sides to this collection: something romantic and pure, almost ‘church girl’ with those pastels, mixed with a powerful ‘killer red’ and an idea of something seductive but also disturbing,” Christopher Kane, the man behind the brand, said in a statement on Wednesday about their spring-summer 2016 collection. Brand Christopher Kane was launched in 2006 with a design philosophy that is very abstract and personal.