“I think it’s important to look at death if it comes under the word macabre because I think that it is part of life. I’ve always been fascinated by the Victorian period of death where they used to take pictures of the dead. It’s not about brushing it under the carpet like we do today. It’s about celebrating someone’s life. I don’t think it’s a bad thing, I think it’s a very sad thing, a melancholic thing. It’s a very romantic thing because it means the end of a cycle. Everything has an end. The cycle of life is a positive thing because it gives room for new things to come.”

It’s New York Fashion Week’s opening day today -but the news of the death of Lee McQueen of Alexander McQueen, sent shock waves through Bryant Park, and all people who loved his work.

It took me about 0.6 seconds to fall in love the first time I saw his designs. He took edgy to new extremes but with that Savile Row tailoring expertise that makes your heart pound on seeing such perfection. He always told a story of fantasy and nightmare, love and death, beauty and macabre, the morbid and the foreboding…

The loss is monumental for the industry, as McQueen was unarguably one of its incomparable talents. I am destroyed that he was no longer driven to create, but his body of work stands as a testimony to his true creative brilliance.

Please enjoy this sample of my favorite pieces of his work.











Alexander McQueen’s Target line is supposed to hit stores on March 1; I wonder how this will effect that…?

(this is my 666th post, creeping me out…)