Alexander Mcqueen Influences

There are lots of designers in this global fashion industry but not all of them could become famous and influence this world. However, we are have to mention a name when we talk about the fashion influences and this name is Alexander McQueen. He is a British fashion design born in a normal taxi driver family. No one know that this kid could shake the fashion world someday. His works were influence us in many different ways such as his unique way of presenting his designs, his abstract design changed many people’s taste and perspective, and even his runway music or fashion photos influenced certain categories. Therefore, we can understand more of Alexander McQueen and realize how important he and his works was.

Alexander McQueen should not

just be called as famous fashion designer, but merely a unique artist for everything in his shows especially the method of showing his garments. Many of McQueen’s fashion show incorporated lots of elements that we had never seen in other shows. He disliked to ask model walk like a robot but as performer. The website the Business of Fashion provide us an example that “Alexander McQueen staged lavish and unconventional runway shows, such as a recreation of a shipwreck for his Spring 2003 collection, Spring 2005's human chess game, and the Fall 2006 show, Widows of Culloden, which featured a life-sized hologram of supermodel Kate Moss dressed in yards of rippling fabric.” We receive many information from this example. McQueen liked to used unconventional material which that other people would not think to use in a fashion show such as human chess game and shipwreck. These runway show that he has many whimsical ideas for the fashion world and this brought many influences for other designers, such as Tom Ford. Furthermore, the interview between the interviewer and Alexander McQueen from “Paris Modes” in Paris Première TV channel has a small footage from Tom Ford. He said: “We started to make investment another company. I really thought about every season whose collections do I looks at them, whose collections I might jealous of in a sense, whose collections that I think are absolutely amazing.

Lee or Alexander as every one knows him, every season he has something that is so weird.” The successful designer, Tom Ford, give a really beautiful praise for McQueen’s runway. He was attracted by his shows and his works. The reaction after watching this show also lead Tom wanted to invited McQueen to join in the Gucci Group since they were looking for another company to invest. The unique runways are labels for McQueen and these runway made him stand out from these fashion designers.

Alexander McQueen’s works had influenced many people who work in fashion industry and he effected many other normal people and celebrities as well. When McQueen host his first runway show in 1993, many people critic made lots of comments on his low rise pants and ripped lace dress positively and negatively. In a report, “Six ways Alexander McQueen changed fashion” from BBC by Rajini Vaidyanathan contains a review of McQueen’s bumster from the director of Blow PR, Michael Oliveira-Salac. "The bumster for me is what defined McQueen. For me it was the look that put him on the map because it was controversial.” The bumster was really controversial at that time because it was first ever showed on the runway and it despited accusations of misogyny and inspired

by the relationship between England and Scotland. In the same article, the author explained how the low rise pants effect the people world wide. “It was a look that spread and spread, although few dared go as low as McQueen's signature buttock-baring style. As hipster jeans became ubiquitous throughout the 1990s and 2000s, a new term, "muffin top", was coined to describe the resulting over-hang of hip flesh caused by low-riding waistbands.” The bumster became popular in many region even thought it was controversial when it was first invented and it even became a signature design of McQueen. Therefore, his design influence normal people’s point of view toward his designs, which are usually abstract garments. In addition, his designs and his attitude for fashion field was influenced celebrities as well such as Lady Gaga and Daphne Guinness. Both of them are very close friends with McQueen and both of their dressing style and career life were influenced by McQueen. In the beginning of 2016, Lady Gaga and Daphne Guinness celebrated the late Alexander McQueen in V magazine. There was a statement that Gaga wrote for his death in the magazine touched every McQueen’s fans’ heart. “The loss is deep. Mourning in my own way constantly, why he is gone, he was so talented. I hate the empty space, not only in fashion, but in the creative consciousness that fizzled when he passed.” After Alexander McQueen passed away, many people felt that the creative field in fashion industry became empty and the fashion world started to get lacking of creativity. When he was alive, the fashion industry was full of energy and exciting designs. Even though nowadays the brand Alexander McQueen’s finance is better than before, the influences are nothing near so effect as before. Moreover, the article “PRECARIOUS BEAUTY” has a review of McQueen’s designs from the fashion icon Daphne Guinness. Daphne Guinness owns many of McQueen’s designs and wear them really often. McQueen’s design influence her dressing style and taste for fashion. “The suicide of McQueen early last year was another loss: "He called himself 'a romantic schizophrenic,' and that romanticism was what we all had in common.” This is what she told the author about McQueen’s personally life. Romantic schizophrenic was a name that he give to himself and people started to agree with that, which means that all the people work in fashion industry know that McQueen’s works are really romantic in a naughty way. And people changed their mind from critical to admired. His work and his attitude toward work are not only influences people who work in the fashion industry but also affect us.
As we all know that Alexander McQueen’s designs are really controversial in both positive and negative way and this is how influences comes.