London Designers Mine the Dark Side

LONDON — If fashion has a knack for unearthing beauty in bleak times, London’s designers have always been particularly adept at mining the dark side.

Take Christopher Kane and his ongoing obsession with anatomy. Not many designers would have the “guts” to turn the unravelling of a human intestine into a ruffled peplum. In movement, they were meant to mimic the waddle of what Kane called his “ugly ducklings.” Plucked from his…