Cristopher Kane's Cultural Creative Subversive Fashion

Fashion becomes natural and political in offbeat ways. Just when the London Press is comparing Michelle Obama’s June 2009 flower-festooned fashion extravaganza to Christopher Kane, the hip, young designer volunteers that he’s fed up with florals.

via Style.comSo how about mushroom clouds? Not mushrooms au naturel, but bonafide photo prints of nuclear test explosions from the fifties to the seventies, readily available on the U.K. Ministry of Defense Web site.

These gorgeous prints are placed on innocent-looking, girlish suspended cutout shapes. How innocent can a young woman appear?

Kane told Style.com: “I wanted clean, sexy shapes that are quite easy to wear,” he said. Most are short, but the newest-looking—possibly a direction for next season—is a mid-calf dress cleverly draped to catch the waist without clinging. The collection is further fleshed out with Kane’s made-in-Scotland cashmeres, a “Shrapnel” organza dress decorated with grosgrain tabs that shimmy with movement, and crinkly washed leather jackets.

Will our Fashion Indy First Lady make her own ‘nuclear cloud’ fashion statement? After her attire yesterday, I understand clearly that Michelle Obama will wear whatever she darn well pleases.

And we know that the POTUS is not thrilled about loose nukes. Anne