A baffling piece of news has been announced. Christopher Kane’s studio was broken into on Saturday night and 23 pieces from the SS08 collection that is due to be shown on Monday September 17th have been stolen as well as Kane’s laptop. The thieves somehow knew the keycodes to both sets of doors and left no fingerprints. I may be getting a bit Nancy Drew here but let’s look at the complete pointlessness of stealing Kane’s collection here….
Given the hype Kane’s show garners, there’s not a place in the world that those dresses could be worn in public without some random fashionista squaking ‘Oh, that’s Christopher Kane!’ unless we’re talking about deserts, jungles, moutains and other vast expanses of nothing-ness….. in which case it’s doubtful that a sexy Kane creation is going to be showing up….
eBay pirates wanting to make a buck or two by selling them on auction…. they would be caught in an eBay second….
The dresses are to be sent off to China to be prototypes for the cheap factory knock-offs which will again end up on eBay…. nobody would believe Christopher Kane dresses could be sold for a nicely rounded figure of $59.99 (if you think you’re buying a Marc Jacobs dress for that price, don’t be fooled!).
Interns working at Kane’s studio as a spy for another designer…. what would another designer do with Kane’s collection? Use it as ‘inspiration’ for their own collection? With Kane’s show still scheduled to go ahead (gosh… remaking the whole collection in a week and a half…. tough stuff for Kane and his team me thinks….), it’s unlikely that any designer would dare implement any noticeable inspirations into their clothes without getting caught immediately.
I can only think that a Kane-obsessive who wishes to house all his work in a catacomb-esque underground vault where he/she can descend and proceed to adore Kane’s work in a religious fashion could have stolen these goods if those dresses are to be of any use at all…
Good golly…. I had better ring up Scotland Yard. I have solved the crime in a minute!
Lol . . . Susie Bubble Fashion detective . . .I think you must be right!!
Or maybe just some mean person who has a personal vendetta against him and wants to “put a stick in the wheel” for lack of a better term. How very rude. Good PR for Kane in the end though.
I used to work in Public Relations. So, when I read such stories, the first thing comes to my mind: this is a publicity stunt! Like those countless celebrity marriages, divorces!
If it’s not a PR stunt. . . poor Christopher Kane! That’s a lot of work down the tubes!
This is very strange and pointless to do, no? What does stealing gain in the end anyway?
It definitely sucks for him 🙁
wasn’t me!
=)) hahaa WendyB
that’s crazy – something similar happened to alice temperly…
Poor guy. That makes me angry. I hope he gets his show ready in time.
oh dear, am i cynical to think that this might be a case of ‘dog at my homework?’
probably..
actually, my dog did eat my homework twice in my life, so… things do happen.
i’m sure he can pull something together.
Oh my god, poor thing. If it’s not a PR stunt then god, who would do that? 🙁
basically, kane hasn’t produced the goods, so he’s faking the collection being stolen to excuse showing a small collection for spring 2008, and yes of course to whip up yet more hype.
apparently he has discussed this with a well-known fashion writer from a certain global website. she told him to go ahead.
kind of annoying to other studios, really…
I’ll need to agree with Rollergirl – Mr Kane spent too much partying and traveling in the last 6 months so I can understand and expect the robbery might be a stunt!
More likely, a competitor that doesn’t want Kane to make it to the show.
maybe an ex lover or somebody who got no credit for his or her input… somebody else did all the work while he tookk 5
The non finger prints is very James Bond!!! this burglary is such a lie of course.. if you cannot keep the hype in one way try another would suggest any PR..
I have to say, it’s got to be a publicity stunt. It’s the only thing that makes sense: you don’t put in the work, you make a collection that’s kind of crap, you fake a burglary and get publicity for nothing and sympathy for a diminished collection. It’s a win win.
Wow…I’m such a naive bumpkin… the PR stunt thing did not cross my mind at all… perhaps I’m a sucker….
We shall see next Monday when his show is on…whether this was a hoax to cover up a shoddy collection…
It disgusts me that you’ve said that. IN NO WAY was this a publicity stunt!
its sad see a little thing , new born as Kane already involved in this sort of Holywood PR drama.
It sounds like it was stolen out of spite. Maybe they’re just in some garbage dumb somewhere…
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exactly how a small designer’s studio is possibly EVER empty the weekend BEFORE fashion week i beyond me. I am working with a designer and we SLEEP in the studio right now.
it’s PR.
there probably is no collection. all a stunt, I think!