Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Fashion World Pays Tribute to Alexander McQueen


Paid models, and a glossy magazine editors, film and music stars to the elite of the fashion world in honor of the British designer Alexander McQueen on Monday in a moving service in St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
Model Kate Moss and actress Sarah Jessica Parker among the A-list crowd of more than one thousand people gathered to commemorate the shine mercurial technical features of the designer, who rose from a firm of East London the end of boyhood to the ranks of the front of fashion before they took his life in February.
McQueen (40-year-old committed suicide shortly after the death of his mother. Took a combination of cocaine, tranquilizers and sleeping pills before hanging himself in his office and concluded the investigation of the
London apartment.
“I loved him:” Moss, dressed in black and wearing dark sunglasses, “he told Reuters outside the cathedral after the service in the United States Regiment editorial Wintour I am the President of Fashion International Herald Tribune editor Suzy Menkes, a nephew and two of his friends and spoke a mixture of McQueen extraordinary talent, and blasphemy shock,
vulnerability and love a good laugh.
I had Alexander McQueen is one of the designers in the world in terms of provocation and reverence, and was seen show about a “Highland Rape” and “Dante” groups as the classics.
Parker said when asked to summarize the career McQueen, and: “One of a kind, too … and service and bitter-sweet – perfect.”
Wintour gave the address during which he expressed appreciation for the personality and genius design a favorite pastime when he was a boy sitting on the roof of his apartment towers and watch the birds flying over the area.
She noted the significant impact of McQueen designs on the world tell the story of his Dante collection, featuring models wearing bumster “” wear pants as well as the bottom of the thigh to reach the podium in New York in the late 1990s.
“One (model) turned out to give me a very prominent display near the back of mostly naked,” said Wintour. “Well, after gathering this is a foregone conclusion and everyone in the pants cut everywhere.”
Bjork and bagpipe
Icelandic singer Bjork, wearing angel wings and giant silver
helmet haunting song called “dismal Sunday,” who speaks in the first person on the report “to end everything.”
And the flow thereafter, pipers dressed in tartan skirts played on the stairs outside the cathedral as guests, friends and family to get out into the sun.
“I think Alexander would have loved every minute of him,” fashion director Hilary Alexander, told the Telegraph, she said, she left the memorial.
McQueen left school at the age of 16 years and received vocational training in sewing traditional Saville Row Anderson and Sheppard, to the neighboring Gieves and Hawks.
Former British Designer of the Year winner eventually got a master’s degree in Fashion Design from the prestigious London School of Central Saint Martins Art and Design.
McQueen was the ability to shock him and autumn and winter 1995 GROUP “Highland Rape” which appeared disheveled looking models in tattered clothes and considered a classic example.
The Menkes group gathered in the cathedral – where the British are aware of national figures such as Horatio Nelson and Winston Churchill – that appears McQueen, who expressed his morbid, anger, anxiety, and it is designed and said to her once his work was like a biography of own personality.
“Did not have any doubt – and as it not – he was an artist who just happened to work with the clothes and that appears, and the treasures of extraordinary imagination,” said MENKES. “And, above all, that his work was deeply personal.”
McQueen and was appointed chief designer on the staid Paris couture house Givenchy. It was his first collection for a professional French is not considered widely to be a success.
But he went to
create the same label and become a part of the Gucci stable of brands owned by French retailer PPR and luxury goods group, drawing in fans, customers and gain fame and a seat at the table-top fashion.
“In addition to some of the most beautiful clothes that have been created in our time, Alexander has left us a legacy more exceptional,” said Wintour.
“One of the great inspiration and exceptional talent, which rose like a bird from his childhood days on us all.”

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