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Christopher Kane - Spring/Summer 11

After such a long and gruelling winter, blighted by unprecedented and hostage-making snowfall, Siberian temperatures and dark nights - not to mention a less than sparky socio-economic context - is it any surprise that designers and retailers (including us) have dived head first into bright, luminous paint pots of colour.

Perhaps it was Christopher Kane's 'Princess Margaret On Acid' SS11 theme that led us to create a devotional collection of scarves in luscious and tantalising colours including apple green, buttercup yellow, watermelon pink, persian blue and amber. While Kane's prices tags are four-figured, ours are slightly less. Plus, how better to update, embolden and effervesce your springtime appearance than with a simple, throw-on accessory such as scarf, underneath your summer wardrobe classics - white shirts and tops, blue jeans and khaki slacks? 

 

 

 

 

 New Spring/Summer Scarves - BrightByBlack.co.uk | Cashmere/Silk Blend

Amber Scarf with Sand Edging | Cashmere and Silk (50/50) | £59

Azure Blue Scarf with Violet Edging | Cashmere and Silk (50/50) | £59

Apple Green Scarf with Pip Brown Edging | Cashmere and Silk (50/50) | £59

Buttercup Yellow Scarf with Sand Edging | Cashmere and Silk (50/50) | £59

 

Watermelon Pink Scarf with Cobalt Edging | Cashmere and Silk (50/50) | £59

Shop the Collection here>>>

London Fashion Week: I'd Love to Glove Jaeger London, Christopher Kane and Louise Goldin


 ... for their black bombast.
 
The recession is causing a lot of colour in fashion. This is not a bad thing. It means that we’re looking to be pepped up somehow and if our payslips and bank statements won’t do it, we must look to ourselves to create the illusion of merriment.
 
This is why the fashion pages in the dailies and Sundays show page after page of bright, vivid colours: a spectrum featuring magenta, cyan, yellow, emerald, cobalt blue and all sorts of electrifying hues.
 

But what if this vivid furniture doesn’t suit who you are, really? And who you are right this minute might be at best nervous and anxious. You might feel that ‘brights’ will make a mockery of you. You might try to wear a sapphire dress to work one day, or out at night but your heart’s not really in it.

 

  
That’s why collections shown by Jaeger London, Christopher Kane and Louise Goldin are so spot on. Jaeger’s show at London Fashion Week was quite different from the others; many of which were advocating colourful bombast and clashing textures that harked back to the fashion-anarchic 80s. Of course, bombast is great if you can live up to its mandate. But if you’re like me and you feel there is plenty of perky defiance in black and neutrals you will look at these collections and feel a sense of bliss and sorority with their stark geometry and luxuriant knits, chiffons and velvet.
 
  

The collections were striking, featuring jet black (…everything for Louise Goldin), thick cream; rich, bold textures that hit the same spot for the beholder as classic Chanel: understated, beautiful femininity. This palette isn’t a varying muchness of greys that can only rub salt in the wound, but just classic elegance.

 

I'd love to glove this trinity in a pair of these : Long Black Suede Gloves with Art-Deco Points. The black cherry on top