Remembering Alexander Lee McQueen

R.I.P.

The Genius behind the House of Alexander Mcqueen
Alexander Mcqueen and a memorial in front of one of the Alexander Mcqueen stores in New York between 14th and 12th avenue.
Alexander Mcqueen show Spring/Summer 2006 in Paris showing support to Kate Moss and with a life size hologram of her at his show.
(left) Shalom Harlow with robotics painting her dress. (below0 Former Mcqueen show. (right) Alexander Mcqueen at the spring/summer 2009 ready to wear show in a costume.
Alexander Mcqueen spring/summer 2010 ready to wear show.
It was announced on February 11th in the afternoon that Alexander McQueen is pronounced dead as he was found hanging in his Mayfair home. The fashion world has gone reeling since....

Everyone lucky enough to have the oppurtunity to be invited to one of his shows is enternally indebted to him. The shows were burned into the memories of all who saw the silhouettes he sent down the runway of feminine fantasies and rebellion in collections. Such titles were earned "l'enfant terrible" and the "hooligan of English Fashion." to Alexander McQueen over the years, but righteously so as he himself admitted. His shock tactics and controversy incorporated in his lavish, unconventional shows and collections were what made him one of the greatest designers that ever lived. Alexander McQueen managed to orchestrate the extreme in his shows using animals and technology to take us into another realm, shooting adrenaline up veins in the experience. In the dungeons of the Conciergerie, the front row was petrified when Alexander sent a pair of wolves straining on leashes with a model clad in lavender. His Spring 1999 show featured Shalom Harlow being spraypainted with robotics in the finale. He incorporated a human chess game into the runway as the models became the pieces in the Spring 2005 show. The fall 2006 show, "Widows of Culloden", which featured a life-sized hologram of supermodel Kate Moss dressed in rippling fabric. Alexander McQueen transformed into an enviormentalist for his Spring 2008 show with a video projection of a revolving Earth and various stuffed animals, including Alexander who was dressed up as a white rabbitt, came out in the end. His Spring 2008 show was a tribute to his mentor, Issy Blow, who died in May 2007. It's hard to comprehend that he would follow her so soon, along with his mother who had died only nine days before Alexander McQueen died.

Alexander McQueen was born March 16th 1969 in Lewisham London to a Ronald McQueen (a taxi driver) and Joyce Mcqueen (a social science teacher). He began dedicating his life to fashion at 16 where he began work at Savile Row as an apprentice cutter and wrote in biro "I am a c**t" into the lining of a jacket made/intended for Prince Charles. Later he recieved Commander of the British Empire award from the Queen (Prince Charles' mother..haha) at the Buckingham Palace. He was one of the youngest designers to recieve "British Designer of the Year" 4 times nevertheless! He led an amazing, inspiring life and is credited from his starting point in his career to the future as bringing drama and extravagence to the catwalk. He was an arch romantic with a pessimistic streak. It produced some of the most beautiful, shocking images in the history of fashion, but it’s a state of mind that can lead to endless disappointments. The death of McQueen’s beloved mother last week would have validated his pessimism. It would undoubtedly have taken away his most vital support. It’s awful to imagine him trying—and failing—to cope, and one can only hope that, if he was looking for peace, he found it.

God Save McQueen
R.I.P. Alexander Lee McQueen

This whole tribute was solely created by me, I worked really hard on it and my tribute will continue....