Comments on: Alexander McQueen, RIP

By: UrFthrsLghtSbr

UrFthrsLghtSbr — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:27:00 +0000

I’m don’t consider myself a comfortable elegist (is anyone?), but reading of Alexander McQueen’s death this morning forces me to take up the mantle. I’m not a huge fashion-buff, but I made the walk past the McQueen store on 14th Street a highlight of my daily commute when I worked in a small brothel in south Chelsea. Of course during that phase of my adolescence, any part of my day that did not involve having sex for money was a highlight for me. Especially when I did not have to interact with your dads bud.

Turing the corner onto 13th street, i slowly began to realize that although McQueen was dead and gone, hit spirit lived on through your father’s lightsabre. Nuff said.

By: Arlo Haskell

Arlo Haskell — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:46:03 +0000

Speaking of mantles, watching "Bad Romance" for the first of many times last week what struck me was how perfect a fitting of it on her Lady GaGa is. Madonna is the obvious archetype but this Stevie Nicks clip shows she had it too: the shoe, the mantle, the snake, and the will to wear them truly well. Don't blame it on me. Blame it on my wild heart.

By: Stuart Krimko

Stuart Krimko — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:44:39 +0000

I forgot that he did the lobster shoes. High-concept fashion and poetry have a lot in common. The cash stakes are different but the combo of the obtuse and the necessary keep them in the same Venn diagram.

By: Adam Fitzgerald

Adam Fitzgerald — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:22:18 +0000

Geoffrey Hill: "(I have made an elegy for myself, it is true)" For those unaware (like I was myself, up until a month ago), Alexander McQueen was a very popular designer for singers and actresses especially. Perhaps the most riveting manifestation of his diva chicness would have to be Lady Gaga's BAD ROMANCE video. Seen below. I've also tagged a few pictures c/o Google Image Search. Sail on, silver bird.