Karen Elson for 90s Chanel ads.
Being red-headed is as good as having neon hair.
Karen Elson for 90s Chanel ads.
Being red-headed is as good as having neon hair.
UPDATE: TO CLEAR ALL MISUNDERSTANDINGS, THIS SONG WAS WRITTEN JUST BEFORE THE NEWS OF HIS DEATH. GOD BLESS MCQUEEN AND HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
So in the spirit that I'm feeling like a retarded crazy freak today because tomorrow is a school holiday and me feeling like very song-writer-ish (which I still strongly believe I am possessed by Tavi), here is a song that I've written for Alexander McQueen. (To the tune of Bad Romance).
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh-ooh-oh-oh-oh
Come fuck me, A-McQueen
(Just jokin')
Ga-Ga-ah-ah-ah-ah
Muh-uh-Muh-uh-uh-uh
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la
I want your brain, man.
Ga-Ga-ah-ah-ah-ah
Muh-uh-Muh-uh-uh-uh
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la
I want your brain, man.
I want you, sexy.
I want your disease.
I want you Alexander,
Your geniosity
I need your love.
(LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, I WANT YOUR LOVE.)
I saw your drama,
The cutting of clothes
You mocked Dior's New Look, You did houndstooth
I want your clothes,
Ar-ma-di-llos
Ar-ma-di-llos
(Armadillos, I need them both).
You know that I want you,
And you know I wanna love you,
Alexander McQueen, my McQueen.
I want your brain,
You can never have your revenge.
I need to have your Spring collection
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh!)
I want those prints
And I want those shoes
They are so fucking amazing baaaad ass.
Oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh-oh-oh-oh-ooh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance.
Oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh-oh-oh-oh-ooh-oh-oh!
With my Alexander McQueen.
I saw the 90s.
Your grad collection.
I saw them and fell in love
Had A Hernia
Her-Her-Her-nee-ya
Had A Hernia
(Ah-Ah-Ah, You love GAGA).
You know that I want you.
(Cause I'm a freak bitch,baby)
And you know that I need you
You're a muthafucking genius.
You spray-painted clothes
You cut them up, You hate Gi-ven-on-chy
(Oh-oh-oh-oooh)
LVMH was a fool to not employ you.
You are effing ah-mazing.
And I can't write this song anymore.
Because I realised I fell out of tune halfway.
HAHAHA
(HA-HA-HA-HA-HA)
Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 99
Blue lace. And I totally love the structure and the volume of the dress. I can already imagine the the dress swaying left and right to the motion of the body...then again, don't even dare to try. My brain exploded while trying to do so.
Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 99
The hair is kinda reminiscent of Spring 09. And I totally approve of underwear being made in leather.
Alexander McQueen Spring Summer 98
Metal Ribcage and Spine. It's kinda sick when you imagine the dress on your body, just the shape (especially the spine) gives me goosebumps. Never really like bones that you can feel its shape just by touching it.
Alexander McQueen Spring Summer 98
This was the show (Entitled "The Golden Shower") where "rain" fell upon the models as they walk calmly down the runway.
Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 99
The infamous show that Alexander McQueen did for Givenchy. Robots spray painting white dresses and the model's expression is classic. Damn, why wasn't I at that show?
I LOVE THIS MAN.
UPDATE: JUST 1 HOUR AFTER WRITING MY SONG ABOUT ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, ALEXANDER MCQUEEN IS REPORTED TO HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE. LIFE IS A BITCH. ONE DAY YOU ARE GUSHING ABOUT HIS GENIOSITY, THE NEXT YOU'RE MOURNING ABOUT HIS DEATH. THIS POST WILL AND FOREVER BE DEDICATED TO ONE OF THE GREATEST DESIGNERS IN FASHION EVER. RIP. ALEXANDER MCQUEEN. I WILL REMEMBER YOU FOREVER. I WILL SING THIS SONG WHENEVER I MISS YOU.
Hamish Bowles in drag in the 80s/ early 90s. AWESOME.
Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 94
Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 95 96
This has gotta be one of my favourite collections from the 90s. When I saw the first few sets of pictures, alive in my head was a story of how a mermaid (you see those eyes in the first picture) got washed up on shore: shredded dresses, exposed boob (but looking extremely elegant), small little cut-outs in the skirts. The third picture was just exhilarating with the torn knit sweater, see-through wave patterns on the skirt and the model with red hair; kinda reminded me of corals being lodged in her hair and seaweed being wrapped around her legs. The last picture provided some sort of end to the story: a warrior/guard of some sort had captured the mermaid who was trying to escape from her evil father, back to where she belonged (LOL at this part, can't believe I wrote such a crappy ending). This has gotta be the first time when I can actually make up a whole story from just the clothes. AMAZING!
If the above story seems uninteresting, please forgive me for the lack of story-telling abilities. Hahaha.
Alexander McQueen Auntumn/Winter 94 95
Fashion is just perverse. Period.
Alexander McQueen's graduation collection from Saint Martins. The skirts.
Pictures via RoseMaryGeorge
Another reason why I absolutely love the 90s (apart from the original supermodels age and awesome Gianni Versace ads) is that it's amazing to see how far designers have come to achieve their status today. Alexander McQueen for example used to do really freaky and creepy, out of the world stuff, that may not definitely be seen as pretty in the 90s but his design aesthetics of today can be seen as mind-blowing AWESOMENESS DISGUSTINGLY PRETTY but with a slight crazy edge (you just can't wash the craziness out of McQueen). That's how amazing stuff is. And another reason why I love the 90s is that a fashion show was never just a fashion show. I think Hussein Chalayan was crazy-amazing when it came to presenting his clothes. And it's funny to see how editors in the past used to see Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake's work as weird and largely unwearable but now these editors are begging (maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit) to have Comme in their publications. History just loves to poke fun at people, spit at their faces and stomp on their toes.
Viktor and Rolf
This I swear is not a real person. I got so freaked out seeing this in the middle of the night, and I swear her eyes were following me whenever I go. Until I chose to deceive myself that she was just a doll.
Viktor and Rolf
OMG, I have no idea why, but the Alice of Alice in Wonderland looks exactly like this in my head.
Elsa Schiaparelli Fall 1937-38
Oh hi, you must be Stephen Jones grandmother and Isabella Blow's long lost sister. No, seriously.
Issey Miyake Spring 1991
This is so Lady Gaga-ish (that's a compliment by the way if you didn't notice that. If so then you're either a douchebag or Taylor Swift or both). And this should be in the "Museum of Amazing Awesome Things that Should Never be Shown Beside the Mona Lisa Because It Will Make her Look Like She's Wearing a Monk's Robe".
Comme des Garcons 1999-2000
This reminds me of Comme Fall 09. It's like Rei draped my mother's 80s prints over my grandmother's ancient rug.
Hussein Chalayan.
Hussein Chalayan, is a genius. The way he presents his clothes is kind of intriguing.
The first photo is kinda crazy. The skirts are actually draped over the models/people/presenters' seats and makes you wonder if there are seats in their skirts/ the models are phantom-chairing/or if the skirts are made of kick-ass fabrics that you can seat on them/or if they're are a bunch of psychics levitating, especially some of them have their eyes close. CREEPY.
And the second photo is an obvious mockery/parody of Hussein's country (Turkey) and religion. The barely visible painted face either could mean the national colours of Turkey or England (where he moved to later) and the head scarves are obviously related to the most common religion in Turkey. My only take on this (I'm not being a racist nor discriminating anyone when saying this) is that it's kinda of a mockery and irony to the traditional, conservative dressing that I think Hussein wants to bring out. The first few looks... "Ah, a tribute to his country and patriotism" but then, the final looks say all that Hussein wants to convey through this collection.
Coming from a conservative background and country and especially designing clothes that are considered not exactly very adhering to the culture and tradition, Hussein through this collection (from what I think) is kinda saying "This collection is to shut up all the haters. I've had enough. No one stops me from doing what I like." Clothing that are able to speak is exactly what fashion should be all about. I can't say much (sensitive issue alert!) but having your own interpretation of the clothes can be quite a refreshing experience.
I love collections that make me think.
Christy and Linda, Vogue 90s.
It's been some time since I've seen models smiling on the covers of Vogue. And have I told you how much I love the supermodels era.
I think I must be out of my mind but I think I'm gonna cover the 90s until I've something to blog about during Fall Winter 2010.
I have no idea why but recently I've been inspired and have this obsession over the 90s. I don't actually remember the 90s as much as I wish I would. Living 6 years of my life in the 90s only rendered me a memory of me watching Barney and Teletubbies (and I actually thought they were nice then, but now I think that they are just jobs for pedophiles and they creep me out), crying every time whenever I had to attend nursery and eating my very first french fry.
These 90s Versace ads are so amazing- the original Supermodels. They remind me so much about the posters and calendars that every boy/teenager/men had in their room in the past, along with Farah Fawcett's calendar and Baywatch photos.
Ah....The King (The Giant) and his royal maidens (and his fairies).
Viktor & Rolf
This is better than photoshop.
Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 94
The thing I like about me just being 15/16, is that i've no idea what happened before in the fashion world in the 60s or 40s or 80s. When designers reference their designs to some point in time, and people start to say "Oh, I thought this show was so 40s and a little bit of the 50s", truthfully I have no idea what're they talking about. The Fall'09 Alexander McQueen show was definitely one of the best shows of that season. Before I even understood the inspiration and ideas behind the McQueen show, I thought that the show was a huge feast for the eyes and was just out of this world insane. Then I started to understand and realise that Alexander was mocking fashion, specifically Dior's New Look. Instantly, the whole show just shot right past Einstein's IQ and reached the intensity level and the geniosity of the Comme des Garcons Fall 09 collection. Until today, I never knew that McQueen also recycled fabric and prints from his '94 show. It hit me hard, the idea of recycling was also an inspiration for his Fall show. How could I've not thought of that? (The recycled cans as headpieces, the recycled set, wasn't it a little tad too obvious). I guess that's the exciting part of fashion, you just never ever know when you would pick up more references. The show just keeps on getting better.
Issey Miyake Autumn/Winter 96-97
This pleated dress with the print and those colours...... are just mindblowing.
Alexander McQueen Spring Summer '99
This is just sick.. beyond sick. The mesh dress, the spirals, the inverted heel (Marc Jacobs, you're not the first). The first thing I thought, "Ooh, atoms and electrons". Oops, the geek in me just crossed over to my fashion alter ego.
I bet you are feeling what I'm feeling right now.
