Brightest Hour: Designer Spotlight

CHRISTOPHER KANE

Every season, Christopher Kane chooses a print and then runs with it. For his Resort 2011 Collection, Kane admitted to being inspired by all things galactic. Fittingly, the print focus for this Collection is outerspace. And while his Fall 2010 line used leather to focus on all things floral, Kane continued to experiment with leather for his resort collection (a rarity in Resort lines), using the fabric on sleeves, jackets and wide-leg trousers. And while images of space ships and leather conjure anything but femininity, Kane's brilliant ability to mix soft and hard is not lost-and consequently permit certain levels of semi-sweet flirtatiousness. We love his fun usage of platform Zanottis trimmed with maribour fur-quirky and all things Kane!

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CHRISTIAN SIRIANO - Designing from the age of 13 Siriano studied at the American Intercontinental University in London, rubbing elbows with some of the world's greatest designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen. His jump-start to stardom came winning season 4 of Bravo's Project Runway becoming the show's youngest winner ever.

Fast-forward a few years and you can now find Christian's designs in Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and many more across the globe! A regular at New York's fashion week Siriano has been deemed "a prodigy" by Tim Gunn, and his designs labeled "works of art" as per Oprah. Beautifying A-List celebrities like Rihanna, Victoria Beckham, Heidi Klum, Lady GaGa, Christina Hendricks and Kelly Rowland. Siriano also helped one of my favourite actress', Alexis Bledel of Gilmore Girls, land the title of one of Vogue's 10 Best Dressed.

In short this is definitely a designer to watch as I'm sure we've only seen the hat of this man's outfit thus far!

Take a look at Christian Siriano's Autumn/Winter 2010 collection filled with metallics, jewel tones and a hint of leopard print. We're sure to see a lot of this designer on the red carpet!

Source: http://www.christianvsiriano.com/bio.html