Kane is the master of taking something that could be repellent and turning it into the main event of his collections. Last season’s leather and floral embroidery had a good run on red-carpet starlets. Those young girls will lap up the attention-grabbing fluoro shades of his latest offerings, too. Kane opened with a series of laser-cut skirts and argyle-knit tanks or cardigans in the colours of highlighter pens – vivid yellow, green and tangerine – that would not do his native Scots’ pale complexions any favours. Princess Margaret was his starting point, and as the show progressed it was easy to make that connection; he took the neat tweed skirt suits of her youth with their boxy jackets and reworked them in acid organza and lace. Later, Kane incorporated rich tattoo prints into dresses and knits, some of which were trimmed in an increasingly intricate way with fluorescent piping. His collections are always an assault on the senses, but there was plenty here to delight fans, from those piped looks and patterned knits to the light, full-skirted dresses. Editors will be clamouring to shoot those vivid little suits, too.
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