Christopher Kane has officially put his stamp on Mulberry.
For Spring/Summer 2027, the British designer has unveiled his inaugural collection for the heritage house, taking Mulberry’s recognisable codes and filtering them through the provocative, slightly off-kilter design language that has defined his career.
Titled “City, Town, Country,” the collection is built around contrasts. British establishment meets subculture, nature sits alongside industry and the practical is pushed up against the precious. Kane has dug into Mulberry's history here, pulling apart familiar elements and finding unexpected places to put them back together.
Naturally, leather sits at the centre of it all. Mulberry’s Bayswater provides an important starting point, with the bag’s construction influencing everything from outerwear and tailoring to knitwear and dresses. Leather panels appear across coats and skirts, while the Postman’s Lock escapes the handbag entirely, reappearing across belts and footwear.
School uniforms, rugby, parkas and classic British tailoring are brought into the same conversation as delicate dresses and decorative detailing, while the Mulberry tree becomes another recurring reference, representing the brand’s roots while inspiring axe-shaped details across bags and shoes. It's an intentionally contradictory motif: something capable of destroying a tree also becomes a tool for making and creating.
Elsewhere, white broderie anglaise references the house’s influential 1975 "Le Style Anglais" collection, while colours are pulled directly from its history. The familiar Mulberry check also returns, but instead of simply being reproduced, it's blown up, distorted and reworked across the collection.
One of the most personal references comes from considerably closer to home. Mulberry’s original 1990s sweatshirt has been recreated with minimal changes, a piece Kane remembers wearing himself as a teenager. It brings the collection's wider fascination with memory into focus, connecting the Mulberry Kane grew up with to the version he's now helping shape.
That relationship with the past is ultimately what defines the collection. Mulberry's archive has been treated as raw materials, a place where bags can become clothes, hardware can become jewellery and where heritage checks are distorted. In short, it's a teenage memory that has evolved into the collection.
But what does this mean? The answer is pretty simple: Mulberry's history is still there, Christopher Kane is just rearranging it.
