Ghost of a flea: Kara Janx

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April 08, 2006

Kara Janx

Flea-fav Kara Janx explains her design process in that devastatingly cute South African accent. Lots of thinking about colour, apparently. Frequent comparisons of her palette to Diane von Furstenberg's use of pattern, and her already iconic wrap dress, suggest a designer to look out for. A video of her decoy catwalk show* for Olympus Fashion Week, while blurry, reveals a collection that should have won her the whole season. Tim Gunn agrees:

To be honest, she could have won the whole thing with that collection. I saw her collection in early January, and I said to her, "This is magnificent. How did this happen?" And she was all, you know, Kara, kind of slumped over and mopey and like, "Oh, you don�t really think so." I was like, "I do. Look at my face!"

Not to worry: with everything from tiger bikinis to a little black dress available on-line she may have already established a bigger brand than last year's winner.

*Meant to keep the audience guessing about which designers had made the final three; the Village Voice saw right through it.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 8, 2006 09:54 AM

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