My Tribute to Alexander McQueen.
Today creativity suffered a severe blow with the death of Alexander McQueen. A true visionary, McQueen never failed to delight and to inspire the senses. In a world where there is too little of pushing the envelope and too much of going with the sure thing, McQueen always took the more difficult path. There was none other like Alexander McQueen.
His 2006/7 Autumn/Winter collection deeply informed my first trend newsletter, Trendcites, which has been on my site since. As such that is the collection I want to feature here as a tribute to his storied and brilliant career in fashion. Ironically that show was his tribute to Isabella Blow, another industry stalwart credited for discovering the brilliant Alexander McQueen and who had committed suicide a few months prior. But it was his Spring/Summer 2010 collection that he went live with in a collaboration with Nick Knight and ShowStudio that showed just how much Alexander McQueen was going to lead the fashion industry out of the woods. I guess he has left it to the rest of us to figure it out from here. R.I.P. Alexander McQueen. You will be deeply missed and never forgotten.
