Alexander McQueen: Five Best Fashion Moments Of The King Of Creavitity
Shock treatment of clothes.
Alexander McQueen, the rebel king of fashion, told stories through his dark imagination and determination, right to the cusp of the digital era of fashion. Known for his shock treatment of clothes and fashion press, his couture-like pieces astonished audiences. Here are our top ten legendary Mcqueen moments.
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Autumn Winter 1998/1999, the show that encapsulated femininity and avant-garde.
Our favorite look is the iconic cotton and tulle dress that stole the show, worn by Shalom Harlow. She looked distressed but beautiful.
The dress epitomises arts and crafts, with its pulled togetherness complete with the newness of technology. The performance, was a play of romantic tragedy to ‘The Dying Swan’ by Camille Saint-Saens. Shalom Harlow was engulfed in her fragility, with the spray paint soaking the dress by the robots that had minds of their own. The piece is one in which McQueen’ truly displayed his raw emotions and everyone felt exactly that.
The Ostrich Feather Dress: Voss, Spring/Summer 2001.
McQueen’s collections were inspired by sexuality, eroticism, nature, and history, this was the DNA of every collection and remained true to Voss, exploring all these tropes and how the fashion system is like an asylum.
With its business pressures, the collection was chaotically feral, with models cackling and touching the glass in the padded cell they were in.
Clothes that were squeaky clean and tailoring smashed with Oriental garb. Dark and twisted mix, the pieces swayed through, like tortured souls.
Then suddenly an eruption of blood-red feathers dripping in wet-looking slides wrapped Eron O’Connor body, gliding her through, it truly stole the air in the room.
The dress itself is made of microscope slides, giving it an extreme texture, you could cut your fingers just thinking about the feel.
McQueens showing of beauty compared to contemporaries (John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood) was much more reality-based through his materials which explored a side that, one could get ‘grossed out’, by.
His dark references at play, with the show inspired by Joel Peter Witkin, whose imagery evoked gothic and sexual undertones and were not for the faint-hearted. McQueen truly lived and breathed his collections.
Horn Of Plenty: Autumn/Winter 2009–2010.
Again, it is a collection based on the fashion industry through its Ludacris system of churning out constant ready-to-wear and DNA.
The collection on a checked floor and rubble piled up in the middle, were his previous shows, commenting on the system and what a mess it is for a designer.
As for fashion, the most notable was the raven-like dress complete with black duck feathers, the raven representing the symbol of death and intelligence which he certainly executed.
The dress stormed down the catwalk with makeup by Pat Mcgrath, models' pale faces reeked of death. statuesque-like with oversized clown lipstick, exuding a sinister atmosphere, chilly and cold-hearted! this was added by the models the models were laughing at you, truly making you question the industry and your self-image.
Plato’s Atlantis: Spring/Summer 2010.
Vastly different from Plato's Atlantis, this mirage of dreams, desire, and enthrall tech-based surroundings, was inspired by climate change and McQueen’s view of humans adapting to the sea, the models were alienesque, cone-like hair and shoes inspired by Ridley Scott's 1979 Alien.
The materials glittered as the moon does at night, they were intertwined snake prints ready to hiss and enchant you with their hypnotic beauty.
The dress's mostly iridescent snakeskin, crafted with aquatic life in mind, roamed the stage with ease. The fit and volume was the epitome of futurism. Other dresses included distorted images of jellyfish, moths, and, fish.
After seeing these you truly want to adapt to having scales and become one with the sea.
Widows of Culloden: Autumn/Winter 2006.
Inspired by the pure form of beauty through historical references, victorian, Elizabethan and nature. Culloden was a softer collection for McQueen but did not undermine the strength of the woman he created.
Kate Moss; The star of the show, who was presented as a hologram, with poetic eccentricity with a touch of melancholy, her slow movements touched hearts, she was the emotion of the show.
The dress Kate wore became a symbol of the collection with its strategically distressed lace ruffles. the layers cascading like runny icing on a cake, all yummy and encapsulating. Mcqueen based the story of the collection revolving around the Isle of the Sky, home of his ancestors.
Other dresses are full of gorgeous rawness through delicate fabrics and heavenly regalness.
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