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Title: Designer Alexander McQueen dead (ssc)
Post by Factory Girl on Feb 11^th, 2010 at 6:43pm

Thurs., Feb. 11, 2010

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35348689/ns/today-today_fashion_and_beauty/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/11/alexander-mcqueen-death-fashion-mourn

He was very very talented and avant-garde. Fucking shame to go out at 40 by your own hand.

Title: Re: Designer Alexander McQueen dead (ssc)
Post by texile on Feb 11^th, 2010 at 8:17pm

wow, that sucks...
He was original.

Title: Re: Designer Alexander McQueen dead (ssc)
Post by FotiniD on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 2:46am

He'd never strike me as a person who'd take his own life. Really sad.

Title: Re: Designer Alexander McQueen dead (ssc)
Post by SweetVirginia on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 4:19pm

How sad that he couldn't see his way out of his despair. He was an enfant terrible of the fashion world. You wouldn't know many people willing to wear his designs straight from the runway, but he had a big influence on some of the details you would see later in more mass produced lines.

Title: Re: Designer Alexander McQueen dead (ssc)
Post by platter on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 4:21pm

i guess you have to be a woman to appreciate this weirdness. to me it is all a waste of material

:wtf1

Title: Re: Designer Alexander McQueen dead (ssc)
Post by jostorm on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 4:40pm

wrote on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 4:21pm:

i guess you have to be a woman to appreciate this weirdness. to me it is all a waste of material

:wtf1

I don't like him either, platter, and I'm a woman. I find fashion mostly a waste of time that gets thrusted upon you every season. I always found stuff designed by Mc Queen gratuitously exhibitionistic ,shock-provoking and somehow puerile. He's the fashion equivalent to Damien Hirst, who I really wish would turn up floating face down in one of his formaline tanks next to his stuffed shark. All noise and no substance. Certainly not "art" to me!

Having said all that, I hope Mc Queen rests in peace and is finally free of his personal demons .

Title: Re: Designer Alexander McQueen dead (ssc)
Post by Sioux on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 6:22pm

Well, I definitely think of it as "art" more than I do of any kind of fashion that I could actually wear! But it's pretty interesting looking....sad that he felt that he couldn't go on...:(

Title: Re: Designer Alexander McQueen dead (ssc)
Post by corgi37 on Feb 13^th, 2010 at 7:33am

Never heard of him until i read about it in the paper. Means nothing to me as i am more a purveyor of "classical summer wear".
IE: t-shirts and shorts and mini skirts.

And i like them on women too!