Alexander McQueen: Spring 2009 Ready-to-Wear

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The world is spinning out of control.

What a perfect planet for Alexander McQueen s

latest fashion show.

He took the idea of the harem s,

like almost as if they were like nymphys

and the idea that the hair s almost like veins,

like kind of strewn over the face

so we used a reference like species,

like insect-like almost.

[Interviewer] I always think that Lee McQueen is

kind of like a tortured movie director.

So when you re working with him you

feel like you re making a movie a little bit.

Yeah, he s very passionate.

It may spread out of there,

but his shows is always like a haute couture show.

I ve been a huge, huge admirer of

Alexander McQueen since the very beginning,

so I love just the whole juxtaposition

with like his futuristic angle and perspective on things

and then taking it back to like Noah s Ark,

and it s like the primitive meets the technological world.

[Interviewer] So the engineered prints,

which make a simple shape look so rich that surrounds it.

Probably the biggest message I got out of this show

was that when you re going into recession you need to do

things way up and beyond expectations.

I think that s what he s done.

He s given us color,

he s given us these fabulous, fabulous prints.

I mean I don t how many color shades were in those,

if we can actually get that buoyancy

and that optimism across to the customers

I think that s a great thing.

From far away, it s like watching

gazelles walk into the future.

There was this kind of hard silhouette,

but also I think this idea of technology

that he put into the prints was really

a different way of interpreting this futurism

that we re seeing a lot in the collections this season.

It was beautiful.

We know what Lee does,

and like last season was such a breakthrough for him,

did this season feel like it put

the emphasis on different things?

If you make the comparison it s almost as if you re

kind of talking up one season and not the other,

but I think this was so sexy from the get-go.

Indeed it is a much more playful collection from him

in terms of how light it is,

how much prints he s used,

and how he s softened some of his silhouettes here.

[Interviewer] Were we surprised by the collection at all?

No, not really, no, I thought the shapes

were very McQueen, you know the shoulders,

the restricted waist, I mean the structure

was kind of streamlined.

It s Alexander McQueen s purpose in life

to create beauty like this in the world,

and you know, I aspire to the same,

so God bless him.

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