McQueen
I had a hard time thinking of what to write in this post. I don’t usually get upset when celebrities die, but there was something about McQueen’s death that really got to me. It’s silly, but I felt like a knew him through his work, like I understood him. My mom was a big fan of his, they grow up in the same part of London, they had similar working class backgrounds. She was proud of him for succeeding. Her excitement to see McQueen’s innovative designs every season spurred me on to be creative myself.
The craftsmanship of this incomplete collection for fall 2010 is incomprehensible. According to the blurb accompanying his collection on style.com, “He wanted to get back to the handcraft he loved, and the things that are being lost in the making of fashion… He was looking at the art of the Dark Ages, but finding light and beauty in it.” The collection was a sort of juxtaposition between the twisted surrealism of Bosch and the heavenly tranquility of Botticelli. He also used a variation of techniques in it’s creation, from digital printing to reconstructing renaissance paintings on a Jacquard loom. The fact that these 16 pieces are so breathtakingly beautiful makes the fact that he’s gone even harder to bare. We will never get to experience his genius again. I just hope that whoever takes over the brand can continue it with the same passion and conviction that Lee Alexander McQueen had.
All images from style.com
