Sarah has added that female hand-writing to McQueen and this message has clearly marked out as the show background stage by striping off all the dramatic backdrop and just with simple wooden flooring and grass hinting the show’s main spirit – the mother earth. I totally embraced the idea, however, I couldn’t help but wonder, whether the mad dark magic is going to fade from McQueen?

I mean, Lee McQueen has laid the ground carefully in the past many years. The magic of his tailoring skills is just simply spectacular. And the richness what he has left could have driven this fashion house going on for a few more years without a single doubt. Below 2 images are obviously the same pattern, left is created by Sarah Burton and right was from Lee’s unique last show ‘Plato’s Atalantis’. Same pattern, same dress, just different material…do you think what I’m thinking?? — isn’t the left one becoming softer?

This was my main worrying when I watched Sarah’s first show for fashion house Alexander McQueen. The brand is famous with its powerful style representing the sadness and the anger. McQueen himself once said, ‘I found anger is very inspiring.’

I somehow can’t really feel that ‘anger’ inspiration any more from this show. The show its own is truly amazing to every single detail… as you can see the weaved hair detail…

…the applique detail and embroidery…

…the beading detail for the ‘Harvest Dress’… looks like just being weaved out of a gold corn…

…for a while, I lost myself and wonder whose show I am looking at… then I call this ‘moth dress’ came out…and suddenly all those darkness of true McQueen has came back again…

There’re still a right amount of darkness power presenting in the show. I am really glad that Sarah, an elegant female taking the leadership of this fashion house and I am grateful that she has brought the hope and sunlight to this brand.

As much as I am still mourning and appreciated for the entire history of Lee McQueen, I think it would be now a time to light up the torch and let’s search the end of tunnel, the hope will be soon at a near front.

all images are sourced from stylesight.com and edited by @QueenYoung.

We spoke on the phone just moments after the Daily Mail broke the sad news of Lee Alexander McQueen’s passing. The news came as a huge shock to the both of us. We’re both huge fans of his work and it was hard to describe what we were feeling. He was such an inspiration and it’s hard to believe that he is now gone.

For the past couple of days we’ve been reminiscing by digging through old scrapbooks, old magazines and looking at pictures from his past collections. In this blog post (which also happens to be the first one we’ve ever co-written) we would like to pay tribute to Lee by sharing some of our favourite Alexander McQueen moments.

One of our earliest memories of McQueen dates back to this iconic image of a young Devon Aoki photographed by Nick Knight for Visionaire in 1997.

Whether he was sending models down the catwalk with wolves on a liege or creating indoor snow storms, McQueen’s shows were always spectacular. In an interview with CNN, Lee stated that “the show comes first for me.” Who can forget the spring/summer 1999 show with Shalom Harlow wearing a white dress, being spray-painted by two robotic jets.

The concept was kind of Edwardian girls lost somewhere. It came about through Harry Potter, when he was doing a chess game in the film, and I thought we’d reinvent the chess game and distinguish the chess sets by changing the nationality of each row. The Japanese and the Americans faced each other. We had to get the girls off the runway, so what did we do? Have a chess match, with a robotic voice dictating the moves.

For his autumn/winter 2009/2010 menswear collection, he lined the catwalk with Victorian-style lamp posts. The whole mood and theme was dark and gothic and brought a certain Tim Burton movie staring Johnny Depp to mind.

Nowadays catwalk designs are widely copied by high-street retailers and sold before the original pieces are available in the shops, but his last spring/summer show (mentioned further up in this post) gathered so much technology and energy, that it seemed as if the show itself was telling the world, “all you just need to wait till I come out.” Plato’s Atlantis (McQueen’s spring/summer 2010 collection) seems invincible and will be a hard act to copy. It’s almost as if the show itself is again murmuring “yes, you lot can appreciate me, watch me and own me, but you can not copy me.”

And yes, this is the true Alexander McQueen spirit. Never one to follow others, always the one to lead.

R.I.P. and long live McQueen.

Clockwise from top left—-Kenzo…Proenza Schoeler…Stella McCartney for Adidas—Alexander McQueen—Proenza Schouler—denim overall—Yohji Yamamoto(with hands)

In 2010, we see fantasy taking in all different art forms, from movie to fashion to illustration.

Avatar is no doubt the number one fantasy sci-fi movie for 2010. The colours (especially the deep crystal blue), the technology (new camera technology evolved just for the film), the message (save the planet)…all of which are quite fantasized.

Then never mention the upcoming Alice in Wonderland. Trailer sounds like a sequel story of Alice ‘returning’ to the Wonderland.

Alexander McQueen brings back the imagination of lost land ‘Atlantis’. The alien-reptile print, the hoof shoe, the titanic heel…

McQueen SS10 show

Clothes become more dreamy for Spring/Summer 2010. Vogue UK February 2010 reports the ‘Pretty Chic’…Natalia Vodianova is looking fresh.

Fashion editorial and illustration are focusing on this romantic power too.

Vogue February 2010 issue

and that reminds me an old illustration I’ve done back in the university.

and again…discovering Reed and Rader’s portofolio

and illustration from Banshee Beat

At the end this simple point of view slowly formed in my head—Reality is from human’s nature and fantasy is from interactions between human intellectuals and the surrounding environment.