ALEXANDER MCQUEEN RUNWAY LOOKS FULL

The images inside the booklet can be scanned using Blippar, the interactive smart phone app, to unlock the full length film, adding a layer of augmented reality to the experience.Īlexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is at the V&A until August 2. Here, we present a preview of the mesmeric film, created in partnership with Swarovski, which can be viewed in full by visitors to Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the V&A via a special booklet provided by Swarovski as a lasting memento of the exhibition. A smoking with a crystal-embellished back panel and a spangled bandeau in place of a shirt would be a glamorously restrained red carpet look for what’s likely to be a sober Oscars ceremony at the. At some point, it will be floating off to house any number of potential cultural and educational events around the country.As well as the powerful, 17-page photographic tribute to McQueen – shot by Nick Knight for the latest issue of AnOther Magazine and featuring the crystal-embellished catsuit from Deliverance – the visionary photographer also created an accompanying film capturing the essence of the story. And meanwhile, she had the McQueen “Cloud” show-venue designed so it can be collapsed and re-used. As she spoke of uncontrollable skies and storms, Burton was also pointing at “how we should be protecting nature, rather than dominating it.” Her efforts to put brakes on the damage now include using chrome-free leather, upcycled tailoring fabric, and recycled polyester taffeta. Twelve years later, on the way to her show, there were highway signs warning: PAN-LONDON FLOODING, TAKE CARE ON ALL ROUTES. To his successor, that consciousness is ever-present. His final collection Plato’s Atlantis in spring 2010 was a dire prophecy of a world drowned by climate change. Lee McQueen grappled with the elemental forces of nature throughout his storied career. That advantage must have factored into the decision to show McQueen live in London his week.īut it also had to do with Burton’s pride in her city-and it held echoes, for those who know Lee Alexander McQueen’s history, of his boyhood obsession with standing on rooftops to watch birds from his home in east London. It fell on the eve of the Frieze art fair which opens tomorrow at Regents Park-a magnet (again) for the kind of wealthy international spenders who wear multiple looks to the frantic round of gallery openings, dinners, and parties. This was the first Alexander McQueen womenswear show in London in 20 years.

Apart from her “skeleton heeled” shoes, all of the footwear was grounded: heavy “rave” boots or McQueen’s signature thick-soled molded trainers. For every corseted, full-skirted dress, there were boxy, boy-tailored suits, denims fiercely intersected with zipped and buckled black leather, and boldy-elegant tuxedos her hybrids of tailoring and dressmaking, cut short. It led to a show that felt earthed in a female-gaze translation of the gritty London energy of the Alexander McQueen tradition of street and underground. “We wouldn’t have done that if we'd been on that train.” There’s been a sort of community of women a great relationship with a group,” she reflected. “They’re each so different, so individual. “Because of the situation we’re in, it’s been very much working 3-D, one-on-one with models, and people from different walks of life, not all of them models.” She said that anything that felt stylistically imposed on them got scrapped and redone. She’d flipped her creative and imaginative process-the usual build-up to showing in the framework of Paris-to refocus on making clothes more collaboratively, reflecting the characters of the women who came into the London studio for fittings. Sun, rain, storm-whatever comes, you have to just keep going.”

The fact is, we’re not in control of the situation. And how you have to just face it with bravery. “And I’ve been thinking about what we've all been through: this constant feeling that you don’t know what the next day is going to be. And then this kind of ferocious sky,” she observed. Some days it can be kind of very calm, a very beautiful dappled sky.

“There’s that sense that the sky is ever-changing-this constant change that’s uncontrollable. It was a metaphor inspired by the spectacular rolling skies that she and the McQueen team see from the studio every day, and yet equally grounded in her new sense of dealing with the reality of the here-and-now. For her first real-life Alexander McQueen show since the pandemic crashed down on humanity, she gathered people to a carpark rooftop in the East End of London, for an encounter with the aerial powers of nature: “a show in the sky.”

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