Alexander McQueen

Yeah.

But let's think of the Alexander McQueen may be regarded as the greatest designer perhaps ever.

AI could never.

You know what I mean? Like AI could not do Alexander McQueen's most famous hits.

Spraying Shalom Harlow live on the runway with robots and paint.

And not everything Alexander McQueen did was, you know, non-controversial and totally above board.

I mean, he put like maggots inside his clothing in the 90s.

Like he did really edgy

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Next up is Alexander McQueen.

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I gave this collection, which I'm, you'll probably be shocked, most likely to leave you disappointed.

Most likely to leave you disappointed.

And here's the thing I feel like with this guy, right? Oh God, now I'm like totally blanking on his name.

But the designer for McQueen, this guy is like really hit or miss for me, right? When his first collection came out, it was so like design student that I was like, this is horrible and they need to immediately remove him.

Then his next collections came out and I was like, oh, now this, okay, now we're getting somewhere.

Okay, John Galliano and Zara.

So honestly, when I first heard about this collaboration, I thought, ew, why? Because John Galliano, he's like McQueen, right? He's very avant-garde, very couture, very high fashion, very weird.

It's a designer that it's cool to own a piece of.

But when you put all the stuff together, sometimes it's not really conducive to everyday fashion.

Right.

You know what I mean? Because it's like, at first I was like, what is this? You know, I didn't really understand it.

And then I started just looking more and more at the pieces and how they were constructed or should I say deconstructed? And then I thought like, who, why would you go to Zara and pay a thousand dollars for a gown? But when you think about it and you think about shopping for a higher-end designer, when you're going to buy a higher-end piece, like especially this piece in the middle, you're going to pay, if it's Dior, if it's McQueen, you're going to pay anywhere between $6,000 and $12,000 for a piece like that.

So to be able to have this gown or a piece from John Galliano is pretty cool.

Sometimes I go out of drag if I feel like it.

But I still am giving you like a sickening, if I'm a guy, a sickening Alexander McQueen.

A moment.

I'm giving a moment, right? But then the discourse became like, oh, Bob and Monet are too good for drag.

which i feel like i've made this point before but i do see the fashion community moving in the direction of the film industry just in the way that we talk about it Like, there are all of these fan castings of which designer should go to which fashion house, this demand by the larger conglomerates for instantaneous results, and then when those don't happen, you have this never-ending musical chairs of designers going in and out of these houses.

Well, in the case of Sean McGurr at Alexander McQueen...

It was time.

We tried that.

That's just not going to happen.

They could just shut it down.

Alexander McQueen didn't want it to continue after his death.

That is true, but a billion dollar corporation owns it now.

Perhaps I might even do a deep dive episode on this later.

But another designer who comes to my mind about this is Alexander McQueen, who was also becoming super famous because he was turning his runways into performance and performative arts.

So Victoria's Secret angle wasn't really fashion is an art form, but their goal was to help popularize the concept of fashion show designed to entertain people outside the fashion industry.

And as a by-product, they make their brand stand out from every other laundry brand.