The tropes of the sex shop and fetish club have long been appropriated by fashion, but Christopher Kane avoided the crude reek of outright vulgarity with a collection that included sheer floral dresses, with their jeweled buttons, were pretty but for the side glimpse of a thong.
The wipe-clean, dominatrix nature of the black patent leather coat was politely ameliorated by its crisp doily-white collar and cuffs. Virginal eyelet met black rubbery frills in a way that wouldn’t get a party girl arrested on her way to an event.
