Alexander Mcqueen S/S 04 Paris

[paint_it_black]

i love it ...

 

[Spike413]

WOW, loved this collection. He did some of the most beautiful evening wear this season(ex. that silver one, and the one Eugenia is wearing). So gorgeous, and the juxtaposition of gorgeous gowns and dancing unto death is oddly.........brilliant

 

[FogUponLA]

I love this collection!


I didn't find a thread on it, so hopefully we can get something going!

PARIS, October 10, 2003 – It takes a showman like Alexander McQueen to get the lifeblood pumping back into fashion performance. His show—staged in the Salle Wagram, a nineteenth-century Parisian dance hall—was an exuberantly hilarious reenactment of Sydney Pollack's Depression-era film They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Choreographed by Michael Clark over two weeks of intensive rehearsals in London, the narrative involved dancers, models, and audience in a visceral celebration of exquisitely glamorous clothes.
In the opening scene, the girls entered—dancing for all they were worth on the arms of muscle-bound sailors and hunky hopefuls—dressed in fishtailed silver lamé, figure-hugging cha-cha dresses, and show-stopping gowns with spangled bodices and huge feathered skirts. Other competitors whirled on wearing pink corseted tulle tutus over gray ballet sweats; mint satin tap-suits; or a slinky confection of gray checkerboard chiffon. A Billie Holiday look-alike, dramatically vamping in pink charmeuse and ostrich, vied for attention as flashy bodysuited showgirls were energetically twirled aloft by their partners.
McQueen's signatures—elaborately pieced tailoring (now beautifully softened with delicate inserts of lingerie) and body-hugging denims spliced onto nude tulle—also did star turns. The pace picked up even further in the elimination race, in which morphed-together fluorescent chiffons and sports pieces ran hell-for-leather (on impossibly high heels) in a hotly contested dash around the room.
There was even an opening for daywear. Blue-collar marathon survivors staggered out wearing plaid shirts, coats, and skirts made from quilts and recycled patchworks of shirting material, all crafted to the McQueen sex-bomb template. The show reached its climax as a lone exhausted dancer in a silver sequined gown mock-expired center stage. As she was carried off by the designer and his choreographer, thunderous applause rocked the hall.

-Style.com/All pictures : style.com


what showmanship!!! Does anyone have a video of the show!?

those shoes!

 

[FogUponLA]

 

[FogUponLA]

 

[FogUponLA]

the tailoring! the runway! the energy! wearable yet avant-garde clothing! I can't say enough good things

 

[FogUponLA]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eF6TAPY1NY4 if anyone has the full length video or at least the soundtrack, please upload!!!

 

[Beautiful Stranger]

The presentation was amazing!

 

[Blanche DuBois]

Amazing!
unforgettable collection! it was amazing and unrepeatable
I loved it!

the clothes were fabulous, and the energy, this is a show that should have a full video in the net
can somebody upload it?

 

[fashionicon]

My favorite collection, hands down.

 

[couturex]

Very interesting. So McQueen!

 

[eternitygoddess]

O_O. If I had an extra $2500 lying around, I'd buy this dress from the collection:

http://cgi.ebay.com/2750-ALEXANDER-MCQUEEN-CORSET-BUSTIER-RUNWAY-Dress-42_W0QQitemZ160286858525QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item160286858525&_trkparms=72%3A1205|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

 

[helmut.newton]

For me, this was the show of the decade. It was pure genius. The collection was the perfect synthesis of all those McQueen ideas and the presentation was strangely fitting.

The whole 'They Shoot Horses Don't They?' idea was phenomenal and everything about this show was just brilliant. There will never be anything like it!

 

[dior_couture1245]

^^I agree. Seriously...this show is unbelievable. It's unbelievable. The last two passages especially...Karen's solo and then the section of exhausted, run down dancers...it brings me to tears it is so affecting.

 

[Petit Lucille]

i want to gather all his collections in hq, i have none of this one, if anybody knows where can i find, or has them, please, post or pm, pleaaaaaaaaaase!!!

 

[Petit Lucille]

i posted this in the simultaneous thread of this collection: i am trying to gather all his collections in hq, i have none of this one, if anybody knows where can i find, or has them, please, post, pm, something!!!