Savage Beauty

Spine Corset 'Untitled'
S/S 1998










Spines are weird and fascinating in themselves.
Playful.
See C de Moncheaux



Today I was surfing and found myself at the Met Museum page about Savage Beauty - about the work of Alexander McQueen.http://blog.metmuseum.org/alexandermcqueen/about/.

Eshu
A/W 200-1
Yellow glass beads and horsehair skirt










The way this looks like lichen on an old tree.
You can imaging the different and interesting attractive way this skirt might move.



These pictures are all of clothes designed by him which caught my attention.

It's a jungle out there ensemble
A/W 1997
Brown leather, bleached linen, taxidermy crocodile










The bubble effect is weird and different.
In fact the whole thing is different in a very creative human way.



I am fascinated by the 'dark romantic' side of them, that is slightly creepy at the same time as being beautiful. 

Voss ensemble
S/S 2001
Oyster shells
Silk coat from Japanese screen print








Oysters are beautiful and weird in the way that many of McQueen's clothes are.

And by their use of natural materials which work, but are not usually associated with clothes.

Oyster dress
S/S 2003










It's the fantastic layers and layers of fragile fabric in the skirt that attracts me. You can practically feel that it would be just like touching an oyster shell only warmer and softer.



And by the way he was able to produce effects that I have tried and so far failed at.

Sabre tooth nose turbines

Nose turbines from a sabre tooth cat skull at the Natural History Museum

Amin Phillips Ghana Print

 

Root fall

Made using found fabrics

IDEA FOR THE DAY:

Use a similar idea to make a triangular hanging to cover the wall under the stairs, as if the banisters were the extensions upward of the root-like wavy lines.

They could be padded. The horizontal movement would have to relate to the ends of the stair treads.