But just as powerful was the show’s opening look, modelled by Paralympics athlete Aimee Mullins. 13, Spring/Summer 1999 Aimee Mullins in Alexander McQueen S/S 1999 (Photo credit: Catwalking)īy now, the show’s finale would be imprinted in the minds of every fashion enthusiast: Shalom Harlow, rotating and writhing in shock as two mechanical robots defile her white gown with spray paint. Below, we look at the avant-garde master’s most defining runway shows and how they presaged what fashion would become. That innovative vision, more than his skills as a couturier or ability to move people to tears with his designs, is the true mark of McQueen’s genius. The focus on the environment, the celebration of diverse body types, the hyper-digitisation of fashion - all these ideas have already been explored in McQueen’s oeuvre. Another marker of the bygone times when McQueen reigned: his elaborate stage designs were not mere fodder for Instagram, but essential extensions of his haunted, gothic psyche.Īnd yet, as much of a time capsule McQueen’s collections may be, they were precise prophecies of what fashion would look like today. The British designer’s unbridled creativity translated into sublime, subversive creations, whose beauty it would be a fool’s errand to put into words - even more so to compare with what you see on the runways today. To contemplate McQueen’s legacy is to look back on a world of fashion that no longer exists. And then, just as it seemed like fashion’s greatest storyteller had still more tales to tell, McQueen would abruptly close the book on his own life on 11 February, 2010.
For the next 18 years, he would enthral and astound the fashion world with his theatrical runway shows and conceptual creations, unparalleled in their brilliance. His story has been told countless of times: Lee Alexander McQueen, born in London to a homemaker and taxi driver, founded his eponymous fashion house in 1992. It has now been 10 years since the world lost Alexander McQueen.
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