photograph by Iain R Webb
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”Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.”
- Alexander McQueen
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Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2001 Voss
As the audience sat down, they were confronted by a large mirrored box, so that the audience made up of fashion editors would look directly at their reflections in the glass. As the collection commenced, the lights went down in the audience, and the lights went on in the box. The collection ended with the box, which had been there the entire time, and you only saw fluttering sort of things in the actual box, but as the walls of the box came crashing down, it revealed the fetish writer Michelle Olley, staged in a pose that was inspired by the Joel-Peter Witkin photograph Sanitarium. The collection itself was really a statement of the politics of appearance. McQueen was well known for upending conventional standards of beauty, and in this particular case, he was celebrating the idea of difference. For fashion editors to confront an image of a woman who’s not conventionally considered attractive was something that was particularly resonant in this collection.
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“McQueen, as well as being a fashion designer, art-directed many photoshoots, he art-directed many films, and this film formed the backdrop to the collection Irere that told the story of a shipwreck at sea and a subsequent landfall in the Amazon. And it was peopled with characters like pirates, conquistadors, and Amazonian Indians. The film itself was shot by John Maybury and depicts a moment when a woman falls overboard in a dress that’s referred to as the “shipwreck dress.” As she’s floating down in the ocean, the strands of chiffon get tangled around her legs and arms like seaweed.”
-Andrew Bolton
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A previously unseen fragment from Alexander McQueen’s final collection - the last he touched as a designer - photographed by Richard Learoyd for Dazed & Confused
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