The World Still Needs ALEXANDER MCQUEEN!!

He had an astonishing level of creativity. He was always striving relentlessly for the next thing. He was a perfectionist at the pinnacle of his career. He was a great poet, a  magnificent designer and  a creative role model to thousands of fashion lovers.

It would be disingenuous  to speculate about what McQueen’s legacy will be or what impact his  death will have, but if there is one thing  we  can say for sure, it’s that ....the world still needs Alexander McQueen...!!!!!

 A one-time enfant terrible of the fashion world, McQueen’s designs had recently found a more widespread audience that garnered him a good bit of mainstream,  stars like Lady Gaga wore his most avant-garde creations, by all indications, it was Alexander McQueen’s moment.

  

He’s gone now, long before he was done, and the fashion industry is without one of its greatest iconoclasts and creative thinkers.

  To McQueen, that was never the point. Season after season, he reminded us all of what fashion could be on its very best day, when the cynicism was stripped away and creative people got the chance to do what they were born to do. He made clothing that made us dream and gave us nightmares, and there are few experiences in fashion as visceral as watching a collection of his creations see the light of day for the first time.

  

McQueen said cryptically, “When I’m dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship.” It is without question that his legacy and vision need to be continued;  wishing  that he was going to be the one to do it!!!!!!!!!!!

PHOTO CREDITS: STYLE.COM

The World Still Needs ALEXANDER MCQUEEN!!

He had an astonishing level of creativity. He was always striving relentlessly for the next thing. He was a perfectionist at the pinnacle of his career. He was a great poet, a  magnificent designer and  a creative role model to thousands of fashion lovers.

It would be disingenuous  to speculate about what McQueen’s legacy will be or what impact his  death will have, but if there is one thing  we  can say for sure, it’s that ....the world still needs Alexander McQueen...!!!!!

 A one-time enfant terrible of the fashion world, McQueen’s designs had recently found a more widespread audience that garnered him a good bit of mainstream,  stars like Lady Gaga wore his most avant-garde creations, by all indications, it was Alexander McQueen’s moment.

  

He’s gone now, long before he was done, and the fashion industry is without one of its greatest iconoclasts and creative thinkers.

  To McQueen, that was never the point. Season after season, he reminded us all of what fashion could be on its very best day, when the cynicism was stripped away and creative people got the chance to do what they were born to do. He made clothing that made us dream and gave us nightmares, and there are few experiences in fashion as visceral as watching a collection of his creations see the light of day for the first time.

  

McQueen said cryptically, “When I’m dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship.” It is without question that his legacy and vision need to be continued;  wishing  that he was going to be the one to do it!!!!!!!!!!!

PHOTO CREDITS: STYLE.COM

IVANA PILJA: Serbia's Lady McQueen

Ivana Pilja is a young Serbian designer whose eccentric designs and approach to fashion put you in an instance to seriously look again, pause and take this lady's aesthetics in perspective. Her geometrical play of silhouettes , is something to behold....a breathable designs- hip, modern and high approach.

Ivana Pilja  in the near future, will surely be a top class designer, that the world is yet to discover...

Intriguing Ivana Pilja is a Fashion Designer and Graduate of the “College of Design”, Belgrade, Serbia . She worked as a designer for sport and streetwear lines in various fashion houses since 2007 and it’s there she gained great experience.

 Her first avant-garde collection titled "Brutal Works" which is also her graduation work, came from origami culture, which resonates into the strong, geometrical, straight lines of her 12 creations.

IVANA PILJA: Serbia's Lady McQueen

Ivana Pilja is a young Serbian designer whose eccentric designs and approach to fashion put you in an instance to seriously look again, pause and take this lady's aesthetics in perspective. Her geometrical play of silhouettes , is something to behold....a breathable designs- hip, modern and high approach.

Ivana Pilja  in the near future, will surely be a top class designer, that the world is yet to discover...

Intriguing Ivana Pilja is a Fashion Designer and Graduate of the “College of Design”, Belgrade, Serbia . She worked as a designer for sport and streetwear lines in various fashion houses since 2007 and it’s there she gained great experience.

 Her first avant-garde collection titled "Brutal Works" which is also her graduation work, came from origami culture, which resonates into the strong, geometrical, straight lines of her 12 creations.

Alexander Lee McQueen: he came, he created...and left!

Alexander McQueen
“There was always an attraction to death, it was a bit dehumanized…. Who knows, perhaps by constantly flirting with death, death ends up attracting you", the nonpareil  Karl Lagerfeld's remark after McQueen’s tragic death.
There has been no arty-farty , pretentious gait about the enfant' terrible Alexander McQueen, jolting fashion watchers every time his collection stepped onto the runway, sending trend shock waves globally.

McQueen's provocative, challenging, bizarre, shockingly morbid fashion  created sensational runway moments. His aesthetics dramatized disturbing arts and visuals..leaving audience in awe and bewilderment... He came, created and without further ado...left.

.... no goodbyes, abrupt, hard-hitting and tragic, his kind of  french leave!
McQueen was right there on his prime.His star rose to unparalleled dimension, becoming a global force and  an  influential trendsetter. Critically acclaimed  and commercially successful, celebrities love his clothes including the over the top, edgy and  radical diva-Lady Gaga.


McQueen  denotes domineering style, it is intimidating.... Was!

LEE ALEXANDER MCQUEEN: Non-Conformist, Avant Garde... Anti-Establishment.
* Master’s degree in women's wear from Central Saint Martin’s in London with the patronage of fashion royalty Isabella Blow
* worked for Givenchy (1997-2001)
* and eventually venturing on his own.

His clothes are highly constructed and structural in details... molded and stiff. Gothic inspirations asserted his playfulness to the dark side and has gotten darker; more twisted with a sense of impending doom.Hard edge and almost like an armour, his models strutted in metallic shields envisioning wars of a sort kind. Highland Rape, a socio- political interpretation , was downright controversial.. the creepy Alfred Hitchcock’s films.... and arts of unclaimed corpses at morgues by Joel-Peter Witkin.

The bondage leather under-bust corsets, see-through tops and dresses, second-skin latex , a show displaying an image titled  "Woman Masturbating on the Moon", a video showing a woman copulating with a snake to produce reptilian-human offspring, giant red lips on his models and 12-inches high stiletto boots that created a furor  regarding how McQueen ‘hates women’.


McQueen’s visuals were so overt and bizarre, that it sometimes evoked more fear than desire. But beyond all his tactics, his works were of great magnitude and lots of character.


Beneath McQueen's styling and theatrical clothes, is an amazing work of engineering – intricately seamed, greatly detailed, flawlessly finished. The corset, the fitted trouser, the cinched waist jackets emerging in many McQueen collections, were undeniable  results of his tailoring experience. Inspirations varied; Victorian, military, sportswear, sci-fi and manga – in his sartorial route.

The evolution of McQueen’s works, yielded some excellent haute genre stuffs, shifting from the norms to untamed  zones of style..others dared not to.Not so bad..after all, he received countless awards, including four British Fashion Designer of the Year between 1996 and 2003.


In the designers circuit,  Mcqueen is considered the "David", to the fashion "Goliath" power brokers, inspiration to those outside the fashion syndicale, overly adulated lah-di-dah to the established classicists and a blasphemy to unyielding puritans.

Interestingly, in this last salvo, McQueen seemed to have been "turned" to a green earth activist and environmentalist on his last Reptilian Fall 2010, unwittingly the best among his collections.

Would Mc Queen be revered as an icon?....


Well....let's watch!

Alexander Lee McQueen: he came, he created...and left!

Alexander McQueen
“There was always an attraction to death, it was a bit dehumanized…. Who knows, perhaps by constantly flirting with death, death ends up attracting you", the nonpareil  Karl Lagerfeld's remark after McQueen’s tragic death.
There has been no arty-farty , pretentious gait about the enfant' terrible Alexander McQueen, jolting fashion watchers every time his collection stepped onto the runway, sending trend shock waves globally.

McQueen's provocative, challenging, bizarre, shockingly morbid fashion  created sensational runway moments. His aesthetics dramatized disturbing arts and visuals..leaving audience in awe and bewilderment... He came, created and without further ado...left.

.... no goodbyes, abrupt, hard-hitting and tragic, his kind of  french leave!
McQueen was right there on his prime.His star rose to unparalleled dimension, becoming a global force and  an  influential trendsetter. Critically acclaimed  and commercially successful, celebrities love his clothes including the over the top, edgy and  radical diva-Lady Gaga.


McQueen  denotes domineering style, it is intimidating.... Was!

LEE ALEXANDER MCQUEEN: Non-Conformist, Avant Garde... Anti-Establishment.
* Master’s degree in women's wear from Central Saint Martin’s in London with the patronage of fashion royalty Isabella Blow
* worked for Givenchy (1997-2001)
* and eventually venturing on his own.

His clothes are highly constructed and structural in details... molded and stiff. Gothic inspirations asserted his playfulness to the dark side and has gotten darker; more twisted with a sense of impending doom.Hard edge and almost like an armour, his models strutted in metallic shields envisioning wars of a sort kind. Highland Rape, a socio- political interpretation , was downright controversial.. the creepy Alfred Hitchcock’s films.... and arts of unclaimed corpses at morgues by Joel-Peter Witkin.

The bondage leather under-bust corsets, see-through tops and dresses, second-skin latex , a show displaying an image titled  "Woman Masturbating on the Moon", a video showing a woman copulating with a snake to produce reptilian-human offspring, giant red lips on his models and 12-inches high stiletto boots that created a furor  regarding how McQueen ‘hates women’.


McQueen’s visuals were so overt and bizarre, that it sometimes evoked more fear than desire. But beyond all his tactics, his works were of great magnitude and lots of character.


Beneath McQueen's styling and theatrical clothes, is an amazing work of engineering – intricately seamed, greatly detailed, flawlessly finished. The corset, the fitted trouser, the cinched waist jackets emerging in many McQueen collections, were undeniable  results of his tailoring experience. Inspirations varied; Victorian, military, sportswear, sci-fi and manga – in his sartorial route.

The evolution of McQueen’s works, yielded some excellent haute genre stuffs, shifting from the norms to untamed  zones of style..others dared not to.Not so bad..after all, he received countless awards, including four British Fashion Designer of the Year between 1996 and 2003.


In the designers circuit,  Mcqueen is considered the "David", to the fashion "Goliath" power brokers, inspiration to those outside the fashion syndicale, overly adulated lah-di-dah to the established classicists and a blasphemy to unyielding puritans.

Interestingly, in this last salvo, McQueen seemed to have been "turned" to a green earth activist and environmentalist on his last Reptilian Fall 2010, unwittingly the best among his collections.

Would Mc Queen be revered as an icon?....


Well....let's watch!