Trust Christopher Kane to bring us his inimitable take on the sparkly-shoe trend. Saint Laurent’s Anthony Vaccarello may have nailed it with his Niki boot last season, but Kane’s Swarovski crystal-encrusted Crocs offered a peculiarly British reposte typical of the Scottish designer.
In fact, the entire collection he showed today at London Fashion Week riffed off Britishness and all its attendant eccentricities.
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Aside from the Crocs (Swiftwater styles from the same family, to be exact), which one’s domestic staff might wear to clean the kitchen floor, there were also ankle-strap shoe boots with fringing that resembled the mop he or she would use to do the job.
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Kane’s spring 2018 muse was Cynthia Payne (the famous madam known for the suburban sex parties she threw in 1970s and 1980s London) and in a nod to her eyebrow-raising antics. The aforementioned boots were also fashioned in a kinky patent leather fabrication, where the mop fringing was replaced with drops of Swarovski crystal.
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“It’s what goes on behind closed doors in those everyday environments: the smell of bleach, Royal Doulton figurines, ‘readers wives’ and a certain kind of British sauciness,” said Kane.
What could be more British than that?
Click through the gallery to see more styles from Christopher Kane’s runway show.
Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that one of the shoe styles in the collection was inspired by an old Burberry print.