PARIS / ALEXANDER McQUEEN FINAL COLLECTION

It's not the last Collection of the label but the last collection created by Alexander McQueen himself. 16 outfits which were 80 percent finished at the time of his death and it was presented at this week's F/W fashion week in Paris.



The intimate show took place at the Conciergerie, a former royal palace and prison located on the Ile de la Cité, near the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.



McQueen had turned away from the world of the Internet, which he had so powerfully harnessed in his last show "He wanted to get back to the handcraft he loved, and the things that are being lost in the making of fashion. He was looking at the art of the Dark Ages, but finding light and beauty in it. He was coming in every day, draping and cutting pieces on the stand." said Sarah Burton.




What McQueen was preparing had a poetic, medieval beauty that dealt with religious iconography while recapturing memories of his own past collections. He had ordered fabric that translated digital photographs of paintings of high-church angels and Bosch demons into hand-loomed jacquards, then taken the materials and cut stately caped gowns and short draped dresses. In its ornate surface narrative, that might read as a kick against the plain and restrained direction fashion is taking, but in their own way, the fluted, attenuated lines of his long dresses suggested a calm and simplicity. Instead of aggression, they transmitted the grace of the medieval Madonnas and Byzantine empresses McQueen had been studying [Style.com]





Alexander McQueen took his own life on February 11, 2010.

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[fan]

he was really talented,the "english jean-paul gaultier".