Alexander McQueen

One fashion designer who i am inspired by is the designer Alexander McQueen as McQueen was inspired by the anatomy. It was the 17th of March in 1969 when Lee Alexander McQueen was born and right up until his death on February 11th 2010, when he unfortunately took his own life, McQueen created unique pieces of fashion.

His fashion was very autobiographical and most of his designs featured aspects of his heritage. A design that some people would perhaps find a bit squeamish to look at, is his corset design “spine”.  With a metallic finish, ribs that grab round the front of the wearer and a protruding spine that sticks out round the back of the design the “spine” corset isn’t perhaps something every average person would wear on a daily basis but McQueen managed to make the anatomy fun and desirable to wear

Another example of how McQueen made anatomy designs stylish to wear is seen in his scarf designs. McQueen made a design of a skull repeated with Koi carps swimming out of the eye socket, Life and death mixed together to create a beautiful design and this was and is still very desirable to wear.

It is this quirkyness and uniqueness that i want to be seen in my designs.


 

Alexander McQueen scarf (http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMDY2/$(KGrHqZ,!hwFBZ0QKtU3BQcVRyUSCw~~60_35.JPG)