Alexander McQueen: After Lee

[kawing_walker]

i agree that it should be closed..
but if the house is to continue, i think Manish Arora is a gd choice.

 

[esquire]

i agree that it should be closed..
but if the house is to continue, i think Manish Arora is a gd choice.

Manish would be an utterly offense!!! omg.. sorry but I'm feeling offend with your comment.

The house should close ( at least for the next 10 years) ... nobody had the same vision and anything alike presented now won't feel right...

 

[chloehandbags]

^ But, Lee, himself, said he wanted it to go on long after he was 'pushing up daisies'.

I'm sure the suits won't give a cr*p about that, but what should happen is what Lee wanted.

 

[farou7a]

they should follow his wishes of continuing, and if things get UN-McQueen-like, then they should slowly just shut it down..

 

[returnofsaturn]

I think it should go on, but i really don't think they should rush looking for a head designer, they could put the house on hold until they find the right person.. just because this tragedy happend now doesn't mean it can be picked up straight away. Right now there's too much pressure for a designer to fit Lee's shoes.(obviously the pressure will always be there and shoes will never be filled, but still...) At this point a lot of good people are under contract and you don't want them to come in with too much hay on their fork. Money obviously has to keep flowing, so they could have some big names make a tribute collection to keep the house afloat. i dunno.. it would be a shame for it to close, but even bigger shame for it to start sucking.

 

[D'Felipe]

I hope Mr. McQueens wishes are met and the house of McQueen continues it's legacy.

Perhaps Gareth Pugh would work well with the McQueen team?

 

[Jungla_Juana]

^^
not at all. Gareth is just a mere drop compared to the sea of creativity and fantasy that was the mind of McQueen. His vision is not as all-encompassing.
Honestly, I would be aghast to see McQueen "Gareth-fied", but this is probably another case of "apples vs. lamp".

 

[D'Felipe]

Gareth to McQueen may be apples to lamps

but Wang to McQueen is apples to moonrocks!

 

[Jungla_Juana]

^^
I most definitely agree!!

 

[Montmartre]

I know this may sound a little out there but I could totally see Lady GaGa fitting the ticket as the new designer. It would never happen though of course.

 

[heathen]

I really don't want to see them just up and assign an already established designer if they do decide to continue on. While Olivier Theyskens, Nicolas Ghesquiere, and anyone else mentioned are already great designers, it would just seem unacceptable to tap one of McQueen's peers as his successor. It would be like Alexander Wang taking over Christopher Kane or something. I feel it would be better for an unknown to take over as they would be able to develop their own aesthetic under the theatrics and bold creativity the McQueen name is known for, instead of someone with a reputation trying to come in and struggling under the hopes everyone has. In his interview with Interview mag, Nicolas Ghesquiere admits he wouldn't know what to do if he had his own collection because he puts so much of himself into Balenciaga. If they choose to keep the McQueen brand alive, they need someone who will be willing to fully immerse themselves into it.

 

[Thanatos]

I know this may sound a little out there but I could totally see Lady GaGa fitting the ticket as the new designer. It would never happen though of course.

I'm sorry but No, just No.............No

If anyone, my vote goes to Theyskens

 

[mistress_f]

I know this may sound a little out there but I could totally see Lady GaGa fitting the ticket as the new designer. It would never happen though of course.

hum sorry but... what? you know gaga has a whole team of people who design the crazy for her, right? maybe they're the ones who could step in... if anything.

^^
not at all. Gareth is just a mere drop compared to the sea of creativity and fantasy that was the mind of McQueen. His vision is not as all-encompassing.

so true. that's what i was about to say.

 

[maxlinden]

I know this may sound a little out there but I could totally see Lady GaGa fitting the ticket as the new designer. It would never happen though of course.

ooh no we dont want another Lindsay Lohan/Emanual Ungaro accident now do we

 

[Salvatore]

No to Gareth .
No to Wang .
Hell no to GaGa .

 

[etceteraism]

I'll definitely be waiting anxiously to hear.

But Gucci is going to announce it while they announce their yearly numbers which, considering McQueen made them so little, doesn't sound too promising. "Well, McQueen was by far our lowest-selling brand, so we'll keep it going!" I don't think so.

I agree with everyone else though, he WANTED it to continue after his death and I'm sure wherever he is now, he would be so upset if the legacy he worked so hard to create went down so easily.

 

[chloehandbags]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7031947.ece

 

[birdofparadise]

This raises many questions for me, mainly surrounding why this stuff wasn't selling. It's nice to sit back and mourn, review all the things about his work that was fantastic but why wasn't it translating to ringing cash registers? Was he simply an editorial darling at the end of the day, was all this vision and talent simply too much for our more, let's face it, conservative times? Is it honestly, really, truly about a bag and a shoe? Because if it is then the brand should be shut down before being distilled down to nothing, before it panders to the ignorance of shoppers who wouldn't get it if it came up and bit 'em in the a$$.

 

[honeycombchild]

PPR chairman and chief executive Francois Henri-Pinault has confirmed this morning that the Alexander McQueen label will continue following the designer's death last week.
Pinault paid tribute to the designer, ahead of a conference call about PPR's results, describing McQueen as a "pure genius" and a "poet".
"You understand, the Alexander McQueen trademark will live on," he stated simply. "Fashion has lost one of its extraordinary people. He was one of the falling stars that comes across our generation [and] he is a person we will miss enormously."
"His art went beyond the fashion world," he told WWD. "He had a great command of technique...he hid behind an armour of provocation."
Robert Polet, the president and ceo of Gucci Group - which is a subsidiary of PPR and owns 51 per cent of the McQueen label, echoed his chairman's sentiments, saying: "We believe in the future of the brand," Polet told Drapers. "Lee was very proud of the people working in his company, and so am I."
The brand has not yet confirmed if this season's Alexander McQueen show in Paris, scheduled for March 9, will go ahead.

Vogue.com

 

[Salvatore]

So now, since it will continue, the bigger question is who will continue it ? This is where it could get very ugly . I'm honestly afraid .