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Christopher Kane: Mulberry’s Heritage Is a Foundation, Not a Limitation

Podcast: The Business of Fashion Podcast · The Business of Fashion

Opublikowano: 2026-09-18

In 2023, Christopher Kane did what no independent designer ever wants to do. He closed the label he had spent 17 years building with his sister, Tammy Kane. This was the man who put rubberised lace on the runway, who cut up saddle leather on a domestic sewing machine, and who found his ideas in the least obvious places. This Sunday, Kane returns to London Fashion Week as Mulberry’s creative director of womenswear. It's an unlikely pairing. Mulberry means Somerset leather, country houses and the bags everyone remembers from the brand’s buzzy Alexa Chung year...