Sad News about Alexander McQueen
I woke up this morning to the sad news about the death of the extraordinary Alexander McQueen. London Fashion Week site provides the below link. Succinct, gracious, no rumors.
http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/news_details.aspx?ID=181
Rest in Peace.
Jacque Lynn Foltyn
Project Leader, Fashion
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I was so sorry to hear about Alexander McQueen’s death. The world has lost a true icon of fashion.
Kitty Morse, author
A Biblical Feast: Ancient Mediterranean Flavors for Today’s Table
http://www.kittymorse.com
What a tragedy! We should all remember what he contributed to fashion and what a loss his death is to the fashion industry.
An inventive genius, an iconoclast and an artist. And perhaps a haunted soul searching, still, for the light. His creations make him the T.C. Boyle of the fashion world, someone who imagined the interface between animal and machine, between human and animal, between human and machine and let loose those wild imaginings onto fabric and into texture. Lobster claw shoes immortalized in Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” that send shivers down the spine when models walk in these limb-risking forms, textural designs that look like Rorschach tests imprinted on gauze and layered onto the body in ways that re-sculpt the body, conjoining flesh, fabric and fantasy. Whose fantasy? Take a look and let your mind wander.
Kathleen B. Jones, author
Living Between Danger and Love
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/wsweb/Kathy_Jones/index.html
Well said, Kathy, Christine, and Kitty. He was indeed a ‘haunted soul’ and as with other iconoclast-artist-geniuses who had trouble navigating their personal lives, his creative legacy will be lasting, even as his emotional demons are dissected, pondered, romanticized in fashion history and pop culture.
Jacque Lynn Foltyn
Project Leader, Fashion
You capture him brilliantly, Kathy!
JLF