.82nd & Fifth: "Extreme Fashion" by Andrew Bolton .

Curator at the costume institute in New York Andrew Bolton Talks about the first time he saw this piece by the late Alexander McQueen in 1998.

Will You Keep It Surreal This Season?

I always see more mas in fashion than I see in mas these days, I came across this article in Style.com . A good little read.

With Impossible Conversations, the Schiaparelli/Prada Costume Institute exhibit fast approaching, perhaps it’s no surprise that surrealism has again found its way into fashion’s collective (un)conscious. Elsa Schiaparelli famously collaborated with the likes of Salvador Dalí, and Miuccia Prada has done more for the cause of surreal style than anyone since. And there were more than a few designs on the Fall runways that echoed the theme.

At Lanvin, Alber Elbaz and Elie Top nodded at artists like Man Ray and Joan Miró with playful costume jewelry such as crystal eye brooches and a chain belt with plastic lips. Diane von Furstenberg referenced the movement, too, with interlocking hands on a body-hugging dress. Some designs, like Mary Katrantzou’s digitally printed labyrinth gown, made the surreal wearable, and some, like Stephen Jones’ spiny headpieces for Giles (left), seemed destined to stay on  the runway—or perhaps, oneday, the museum gallery.


Brittany Adams

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An Alexander Mc Queen Quote.

Yuh Understand?

“I try to push the silhouette. To change the silhouette is to change the thinking of how we look. 

What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. 

The rituals of how they dress. . . . There’s a lot of tribalism in the collections.”

—Alexander McQueen

ALEXANDER MC QUEEN: SPRING 2010: PLATO'S ATLANTIS

Alexander McQueen presented another spectacle for his Spring/Summer 2010 ready to wear collection. Titled ‘Plato’s Atlantis’ Mc Queen has once again brought another classic collection to the fashion table. This guy simply rocks every single time. I will advise you to listen to the comments made on the video and then you can understand what it takes to be a leader in your field they say he ‘plays with notions, reconceptualise fashion, new visions experiments with new fabrics  and breaks new lines’. These are the kind of descriptions Mas designers should be aiming for when designing instead of the same old tried and tested formula with minor deviations now and then.     

Check it out.

For more check the entire collection and the interview.

ALEXANDER McQUEEN: HORN OF PLENTY.2009 ready to wear.

Alexander McQueen presented a theatrical spectacle called “Horn of Plenty”, the show was a recycled remix of his work and that of others in the 20^th century.   

                                                                     

Now I Love the dramatic works of designers such as McQueen, and John Galliano these guys put stuff out there that is so out of the box it seems to me to be MAS.

Imagine if the designers of Tribe, Island People, Spice, or Legacy, dared one year to step out of the boundaries of their comfort zone, put their talents to the test and went where they or their masqueraders never went before...or if the likes of McQueen did a band in Trinidad...

THAT would be a spectacle...

You see these guys are thinkers, constantly challenging their art form, constantly stretching their imaginations and our conceptions of what fashion is, this is what our mas designers should be doing, instead of swapping colours bikini’s and plumes year in year out, while others argue this stagnant or slow moving river of the mundane  can actually keep the culture alive.

Here is another boundary breaker that got my attention.