Blog 2: Take on McQueen

 Alexander McQueen was born on March 17th 1969 and sadly passed away on February 11th 2010. He was a British designer who left school at the age of 16 to peruse something he was very passionate about, fashion. Through out his career he has been heavily influenced by his idol Isabella Blow, whom bought his graduation collection once he graduated. He has come a long way to what his reputation and image represent today.

I can say that when I first saw his designs in afashion magazine, I was speechless, I had never seen anything so unique and breathtaking. McQueen's designs were something different, they were a combination of fragility and provocativeness, they expressed power and emotion, something that everyone could recognize in his designs. What he has done for our fashion industry as well as our Design inustry we will forever be thanful for because what he has done, no one can.

"Arguably the most influential, imaginative, and provocative designer of his generation, Alexander McQueen both challenged and expanded fashion conventions to express ideas about race, class, sexuality, religion, and the environment. " - Andrew Bolton.