All just to see Alexander McQueen – Savage Beauty.
100 years from now, how will we see them?
As works of art or as artifacts?
To me, artifacts are displays of materials utilized in daily living.
These are not it.
As displayed, they are art installations.
All haute couture,
So nothing practical.
Beauty for beauty's sake
The exhibit provides a place to see multiple collections at once.
And McQueen's vision is singular no matter the theme or season.
What I sadly miss is the motion.
How does it move as a dress?
A factor since he must have designed them to be seen in a “runway.”
Some jaw dropping creations -
apart from the frou-frou ones that scream romantic,
there are the razor clam shell dress, the Spine, the butterfly hat -
And best of all, the balsa wood skirt.
It is a thing of beauty up close. Ingenious.
And I could fit in it.
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