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.
Note to self: Don’t check your RSS-reader and you will end up missing out on gems like this video from SHOWstudio – the video was filmed by Mr. Nick Knight himself, featuring the amazing Raquel Zimmermann dancing around in a Gareth Pugh dress to Lady Gaga’s Pokerface.
SHOWstudio has also posted a video on their site of Gareth Pugh making the dress. Very interesting to watch and it made me think about being back in the studio at fashion school! Thanks to Ashluxe for writing about it and that way bringing it to my attention. Read more about it >> here.
While we’re on the subject of magazine covers, this brilliant discussion thread on tFS made me think about some of my favourite fashion covers from the past 10 years. Here’s a small collection of some of our favourite ones. We’ve tried to choose only one from each year.
First row features Vogue Russia (2001), Kate Moss in Dior for British Vogue (2006) and Kate Moss for Numéro France in 2004 (this cover was reprinted three years later for the first issue of Numéro Korea). The second row features Kate Moss for Vogue Paris (2005). This was one of four covers, all featuring Kate. The next cover is from V Magazine (2009) and features style diva Grace Jones. The third and last is the first issue of British Vogue in 2000 – The Gold Issue. The last issue in 1999 was silver. Third row features Vogue Italia (2007), The Face with Stella McCartney and Vogue Paris (2008) with Kate and Naomi.
And the favourite cover from this decade? Find out after the jump!
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