The Exquisite Details At Alexander McQueen’s Fall 2019 Show
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With a background as an apprentice Savile Row tailor and pattern cutter at theatrical costumiers Angels and Bermans, Alexander McQueen’s extraordinary heritage is defined by emotional power and raw energy, as well as a profound respect for the arts and crafts tradition. After stints at Anderson & Shephard and then Gieves & Hawkes, McQueen worked with costume designers before briefly relocating to Milan where he worked as a design assistant at Romeo Gigli. One of McQueen’s fashion shows featured a model who was an amputee walking the runway on carved wooden legs.
Typical of McQueen’s collections, VOSS offered a commentary on the politics of appearance, upending conventional ideals of beauty. Evoking brazen histrionics and soft-spoken intimacy in the same breath, the McQueen label’s romanticized brutalism guides the geographically-specific set-pieces parenthesizing their impeccably crafted men’s collections.
I want you to be repulsed or exhilarated as long as it’s an emotion,” says Lee Alexander McQueen in the first official trailer for McQueen, a biopic honoring the late British mens designer bags replica. A fragile, blood-red glass and ostrich feather gown offered a meditation on life’s transience, while a thermal image of the designer’s face was woven into the fabric of a silk coat.
Sadly, this means there’s no meaningful conversation about McQueen’s early star-making collaborations with David Bowie and Bjork, and there are no contemporary contributions from patrons Lady Gaga , Nicole Kidman , Sarah Jessica Parker or Rihanna. McQueen both shared and promoted this view in his collections, which often included fashions that took their forms and raw materials from the natural world.
The British label enlisted Chilean architect Smiljan Radic, the mastermind behind the translucent shell-like 2014 Serpentine Pavilion , to design its latest Mayfair space. The late Lee McQueen, a British fashion genius famed for his dramatic runway shows that reportedly brought seasoned editors to tears, was a hard act to follow.