what all the troubles are for

you know it. mcqueen.

{alexander mcqueen resort 2014, photos courtesy of alexander mcqueen by way of style.com}

fill my long ears

i've been a bit obsessed with bees and beekeeping. we know this. also, too, my sister happens to have a music project called 'waitress for the bees'. also, too, again, i was a waitress for a long time. but. that has nothing to do with anything...

emma! bees! sarah burton for sure designed you a full costume set for your world tour! now let's get that booked! i will say that, instead of typing about the tearful twitchy hearthurtful joy that is always always looking at mcqueen. cause you know that already.

AND! IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO A HAT-HEADPIECE THROUGH A COLLECTION, THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT! take note, marc jacobs...

{alexander mcqueen spring 2013, photos by monica feudi at feudiguaineri.com by way of style.com}

glimmershine

just when i was starting to worry that maybe this mcqueen wasn't the collection for me - feeling awfully bell-bottoms and david bowie*, which i'm not really showing here - along came image 5, and the inappropriate shouting of things at my computer screen because holy hell love, and then the bird brocade and i didn't have anything left to shout so i sighed a whole lot and everything was wonderful.

*not that bell-bottoms and bowie is a negative. i love bowie. and i don't HATE bell-bottoms... but it just wasn't getting the shouting-sighing that i always hope for from mcqueen. until... you know.

{alexander mcqueen resort 2013, photos courtesy of alexander mcqueen by way of style.com}

heart

this is what i have been waiting for.

oh sad magic land where my faraway-heart lives, with the ache and the beauty and the coral and the layers and layers of soft melancholy and all of it makes sense and has a reason and a meaning that is lost in this normal world. that is mcqueen for me.

i am still, constantly, angry at mcqueen for taking his life. because the legacy he created is one of the very top reasons that i cannot imagine not living. and then, of course, because i am me, i turn from anger to sorrow and sympathy...

but there is this. and this is wonderful. and i am so happy it hurts.(and a little bit of yeti, too.)

{fall alexander mcqueen 2012, photos by monica feudi at feudiguaineri.com by way of style.com}

if i were to make a thing

 {pre-fall no. 21. 2012, courtesy of no. 21 by way of style.com}

i think i've decided that the pre-fall collections/campaigns are my favourite of all the seasonal shifts of fashion. of course i love the crazy crazy quantity and spectacle of spring and fall with their runway shows and big ad campaigns and so on. of course of course. but i don't get to SEE the shows LIVE, except for maybe a few here in the toronto, which would be the coolest best thing. meanwhile, pre-fall is quiet. simpler. it sort of sneaks up and in and out again. you can miss it completely if you aren't watching closely. i feel like the ideas that will be fully explored in fall are better distilled down to their essence in pre-fall. there's a tightness, i guess. and then there is the inescapable moodiness of fall. all this appeals to me.

also, the way that most pre-fall campaigns are shot really sits well with my personal artistic aesthetic. one or two girls, usually. almost a story. sometimes. quiet or stark or mysterious or closed spaces. non-spaces. yes. i would like it if i were making images of this kind. again.

alright. now let's look a lot. may as well start off big. mcqueen. mcqueenmcqueen. i am loving what sarah burton is doing. consistently, constantly. tim blanks, of style.com, says this is 'the kind of museum-worthy stuff that sustains the legend with its almost operatic lavishness.' yes. i do agree. i do very much so.
and this model? she is amazing. she is exploding my heart. who is this girl? i will find out and let you know. she is brilliant.

 {all photos courtesy of alexander mcqueen, by way of style.com}