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i wonder if McQueens bunnysuit will be on net a porter.....
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loved this collection.
?loved this collection.
Alexander McQueen S/S 09 Paris
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Miss Dalloway
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This is a great collection, i was intrigued by every signle piece here!
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daul kim rocked mcqueen!!
My heart is doing funny things right now and as always with McQueen I'm in love. Beautiful textures, patterns, shapes...it all looks wonderful. The dresses on Karlie and Taryn are breath taking with their shape and the colorful flower-like pieces attached to them. And the crystallized pieces, guh, he's genius. I'm dying to know his inspiration behind all of this!
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Oh the details are just exquisite. I hope we will get HQ of this soon, Frillr!!
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SHOWstudio writes:
Fashion, to an extent, is Darwinian. It's all about the survival of the fittest. And, after 10 years in the wilds of Parisian fashion (including his period at Givenchy), Alexander McQueen has proved his talent can tough it out with the best of them. Darwin formed a central theme to his S/S 2009 show - witness the Museum of Natural History-style taxidermied tableaux and incessantly spinning globe that formed the backdrop. However, rather than Darwin's evolutionary theorems, it was McQueen's own twisted take on 'Unnatural Selection', namely the destructive influence of mankind on nature, that gave the show its focus. It was an ambitious and overarching concept, and one that could easily hang heavy on the hemlines of any catwalk, but McQueen ran with it and made it his own. Perhaps it suited so well because his woman has always been a survivor and because McQueen has always proffered femininity with bite. Whatever the reason, the collection had a touch of the acidic anger of McQueen's early shows, brutal, visceral assaults on the senses that hit the back of the throat. The collection developed ideas of human intrusion and modification subtly, germinating from a soft naturalistic palette of beige, flesh and white to harder, more artificial shades. Sulphur yellow, sickly petroleum blue and acidic red seeped into prints like bacterial spores, while said prints - straited colours on floating georgette and chiffon - spiralled around the body, looking one moment organic, then architectural, then suddenly skeletal. The cut too became more hard-edged, banishing soft curves and attenuating the line. The transformation was finally complete by the finale: a sequence of fitted trousers, moulded mini-dresses and finally a throat-to-ankle catsuit smothered in hard, cold crystal. McQueen talked about the Industrial Revolution, and indeed there was an oblique Victorian slant to many of these garments. The silhouette, according to McQueen, was moulded around a Victorian dressmaker's dummy, and the frock-coats, backwards-jutting silhouette and corsetted waists all evoke that era - and, of course, are found in McQueen's best work. Indeed, even the modernism of the collection, the monochrome engineering prints like shadows cast by the steel infastructure of the Eiffel Tower, seemed to be seen through Victorian eyes; the future as imagined by Jules Verne. For all it's apocalyptic imagery, McQueen's show was by no means dour. For those in love with his femininity, the ruffled silks and tulles, soft woodgrain-print frock coats and whitework embroidery will all suffice. But it was in the harder synthesis of man and nature that McQueen managed to work magic, offering a glittering, glamorous vision of hard, untouchable artificality that at once seduced and repulsed. Lest this all sound too grim and foreboding, a finale to The Pink Panther theme - accompanied by Mr McQueen in a giant white rabbit suit - proved he hasn't lost his sense of humour. He just has more important matters on his mind.
Fashion, to an extent, is Darwinian. It's all about the survival of the fittest. And, after 10 years in the wilds of Parisian fashion (including his period at Givenchy), Alexander McQueen has proved his talent can tough it out with the best of them. Darwin formed a central theme to his S/S 2009 show - witness the Museum of Natural History-style taxidermied tableaux and incessantly spinning globe that formed the backdrop. However, rather than Darwin's evolutionary theorems, it was McQueen's own twisted take on 'Unnatural Selection', namely the destructive influence of mankind on nature, that gave the show its focus. It was an ambitious and overarching concept, and one that could easily hang heavy on the hemlines of any catwalk, but McQueen ran with it and made it his own. Perhaps it suited so well because his woman has always been a survivor and because McQueen has always proffered femininity with bite. Whatever the reason, the collection had a touch of the acidic anger of McQueen's early shows, brutal, visceral assaults on the senses that hit the back of the throat. The collection developed ideas of human intrusion and modification subtly, germinating from a soft naturalistic palette of beige, flesh and white to harder, more artificial shades. Sulphur yellow, sickly petroleum blue and acidic red seeped into prints like bacterial spores, while said prints - straited colours on floating georgette and chiffon - spiralled around the body, looking one moment organic, then architectural, then suddenly skeletal. The cut too became more hard-edged, banishing soft curves and attenuating the line. The transformation was finally complete by the finale: a sequence of fitted trousers, moulded mini-dresses and finally a throat-to-ankle catsuit smothered in hard, cold crystal. McQueen talked about the Industrial Revolution, and indeed there was an oblique Victorian slant to many of these garments. The silhouette, according to McQueen, was moulded around a Victorian dressmaker's dummy, and the frock-coats, backwards-jutting silhouette and corsetted waists all evoke that era - and, of course, are found in McQueen's best work. Indeed, even the modernism of the collection, the monochrome engineering prints like shadows cast by the steel infastructure of the Eiffel Tower, seemed to be seen through Victorian eyes; the future as imagined by Jules Verne. For all it's apocalyptic imagery, McQueen's show was by no means dour. For those in love with his femininity, the ruffled silks and tulles, soft woodgrain-print frock coats and whitework embroidery will all suffice. But it was in the harder synthesis of man and nature that McQueen managed to work magic, offering a glittering, glamorous vision of hard, untouchable artificality that at once seduced and repulsed. Lest this all sound too grim and foreboding, a finale to The Pink Panther theme - accompanied by Mr McQueen in a giant white rabbit suit - proved he hasn't lost his sense of humour. He just has more important matters on his mind.
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The only thing I really don't like in this collection is the "Balenciaga Spring 2008 silhouette".
It's so distracting, because I keep thinking of Balenciaga and those printed dresses.
The rest of it is pretty brilliant but those shapes. You just *can't* disassociate them from Balenciaga.
It's so distracting, because I keep thinking of Balenciaga and those printed dresses.
The rest of it is pretty brilliant but those shapes. You just *can't* disassociate them from Balenciaga.
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I knew it!
This collection is slightly revisionist ... hes got ENOUGH to do so ... the prints reminds me SO much of the SS 03 show -the "pirate" one- .. and this has two clearly divided sections like that show -which, to me .. its the best McQueen EVER-
The fringed dresses with the lacy birds in the back ... the prints ... the skulls ... its flwalessly executed demi couture ... this is what he does ... and HE ROCKED IT!
This collection is slightly revisionist ... hes got ENOUGH to do so ... the prints reminds me SO much of the SS 03 show -the "pirate" one- .. and this has two clearly divided sections like that show -which, to me .. its the best McQueen EVER-
The fringed dresses with the lacy birds in the back ... the prints ... the skulls ... its flwalessly executed demi couture ... this is what he does ... and HE ROCKED IT!
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I absolutely love and would wear ever single piece in the collection. He never lets me down.
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loved his collection.
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I thought it wouldn't grow on me, but it did. I love the elegance, the look and the prints (all pictures in #72) and I can't get over my love for the belted corsets, and the style of the hair held in with a netting like that. I love it, his stories always remind me of butterflies and cocoons, but he does it in a chic and lovely way. It's one of the most wearable collections he's developed.
OMG, I think I've died and gone to heaven. This is quintessential McQueen. Everything about this collection, from the sculptured shapes and silhouettes, to the strong tailoring, screams classic McQueen.
At first, when I saw pieces of the collection here and there, I didn't know what to think. However, that all changed when I saw the collection in its entirety. Wow, talk about amazing.
Oh, and I totally get the whole Darwinian/evolution theme behind it, where the beginning pieces symbolize nature in its purest form, and the latter pieces represent the post-industrial era, where man decided to take things into his own hands. Brilliant concept. Nicely done, McQueen!
And what's everyone's deal with his last collection? I loved it, but then again, McQueen can do no wrong in my book, so I may be a little biased, LOL.
Okay, I must go back and view this SS '09 collection again, for such brilliance cannot be fully appreciated by just one view!!
Those photos are great. Thanks for posting them!
At first, when I saw pieces of the collection here and there, I didn't know what to think. However, that all changed when I saw the collection in its entirety. Wow, talk about amazing.
Oh, and I totally get the whole Darwinian/evolution theme behind it, where the beginning pieces symbolize nature in its purest form, and the latter pieces represent the post-industrial era, where man decided to take things into his own hands. Brilliant concept. Nicely done, McQueen!
And what's everyone's deal with his last collection? I loved it, but then again, McQueen can do no wrong in my book, so I may be a little biased, LOL.
Okay, I must go back and view this SS '09 collection again, for such brilliance cannot be fully appreciated by just one view!!
Those photos are great. Thanks for posting them!
Haha
Well I guess another disappointment was the fact that marine animals were excluded. A whale or two would have been a nice additon 
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i like his animal prints collection, and very tiger-ish and finally in that photo i can see a model smile in runway. and that's very rare though.
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