Kate Sylvester vs Jane Eyre

Kate Sylvester showed her SS12/13 collection ‘All My Heart’ starring her muse – a Jane Eyre heroine – in doily prints, punchwork leather collars and flowing silk satin gowns, amongst the rock and roll setting of Golden Dawn at Marr Factory…

"All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever."

Kate Sylvester showed her SS12/13 collection ‘All My Heart’ starring her muse – a Jane Eyre heroine – in doily prints, punchwork leather collars, tweed shorts suits, and flowing silk satin gowns, amongst the rock and roll setting of Golden Dawn.

The ladylike collection had the 19th century Bronte Babes time-travelling to the Ponsonby bar for this, the last of the five Marr Factory shows put on by Stephen Marr and Hallertau.

I would personally wear every piece in this collection (okay maybe with something underneath…) as they were perfect for everything from work to parties to lounging around. Perhaps not the gym – Charlotte Bronte never went to the gym – but I’m pretty sure she went to a few afternoon teas and there were plenty of dresses to take tea in.

Hair by Stephen Marr didn’t take a pretty-pretty, literal take on Jane Eyre but instead had a dishevelled beauty, with back-combed hair giving height to the crown and worn long down the back. Perhaps they were depicting Jane fleeing Thornfield in the middle of the night after discovering Mr Rochester was married?

Make-up by M.A.C cosmetics had undone eyes and lips to look like she had "just had a roll in the hay." Probably something Jane would never do.