Christopher Kane Wins British Fashion Council/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund

Christopher Kane has sewn up the 2011 British Fashion Council/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund, the across-the-pond version of Anna Wintour and co.’s wildly successful initiative to boost young design talent. Now in its second year, the BFC/Vogue award provides the winner with £200,000 (at current exchange, just a few dollars over the stateside $300,000 purse) and access to industry mentors—although Kane has already found a champion in Donatella Versace, who in 2006 snapped up the Scottish-born designer’s Central Saint Martins graduate collection and later tapped him to reimagine her house’s long-shuttered diffusion line, Versus.