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Alexander McQueen
Mar. 11th, 2010 07:30 pmThis slideshow, of his famous autumn 2007 witches' collection, is sublime. It is what the fuss is about.
He was a big fan of Francis Bacon.
Compare and contrast with the really idiotic dresses on the red carpet at the Academy last week.
Ingrid Sischy says the witches' collection was his darkest, emblematic of deep places he went alone, and I don't think it would be news to say that at least two of the models look junked out of their minds.
NYT fashion mag editor Stefano Tonchi's remarks make the most sense:
I’d like to remember the most recent McQueen show because he was always about the next thing and the future, never looking back but always staying true to himself. The futuristic, very Avatar show he put on last spring was, like the movie, a romantic trip into a fantasy world where imagination and creativity have no limits, where creatures on monstrous hills were mating and making the impossible possible. I like to think about those futuristic battles between humans and machines, between corporations and individuals. I’d like to remember McQueen escaping in his own Avatar world.
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/slideshow/S2010RTW-AMCQUEEN?event=show1982&designer=design_house43&trend=&iphoto=0
McQueen is, to some extent, just one of the many victims of what is happening to fashion; the mega-corporations are making creativity more difficult every season. The struggle between the demands of marketing and the freedom and needs of the creative process, the pressure to constantly sell more and to keep upping the ante on the shows with more celebrities and always more press coverage, these are the things that are literally killing fashion.
He was a big fan of Francis Bacon.
Compare and contrast with the really idiotic dresses on the red carpet at the Academy last week.
Ingrid Sischy says the witches' collection was his darkest, emblematic of deep places he went alone, and I don't think it would be news to say that at least two of the models look junked out of their minds.
NYT fashion mag editor Stefano Tonchi's remarks make the most sense:
I’d like to remember the most recent McQueen show because he was always about the next thing and the future, never looking back but always staying true to himself. The futuristic, very Avatar show he put on last spring was, like the movie, a romantic trip into a fantasy world where imagination and creativity have no limits, where creatures on monstrous hills were mating and making the impossible possible. I like to think about those futuristic battles between humans and machines, between corporations and individuals. I’d like to remember McQueen escaping in his own Avatar world.
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/slideshow/S2010RTW-AMCQUEEN?event=show1982&designer=design_house43&trend=&iphoto=0
McQueen is, to some extent, just one of the many victims of what is happening to fashion; the mega-corporations are making creativity more difficult every season. The struggle between the demands of marketing and the freedom and needs of the creative process, the pressure to constantly sell more and to keep upping the ante on the shows with more celebrities and always more press coverage, these are the things that are literally killing fashion.
