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I just wanted to write a few words about Alexander McQueen. I adored McQueen. I loved almost everything he created and sent down the runway. If you look at my notebook from high school you can see images of his work and below, cross my heart, are some of images I already had saved on my hard drive of his work - to inspire me and my work.


Much has been said about the fashion industry; about size and "reality" of the clothing but I am one of the few people, I think, who doesn't go through fashion magazines or look at runway shows and think, "Gosh she's so thin" or "How silly is that?" I take it for what it is: a show, a fantasy, a piece of art and no one, in my opinion, did that better than McQueen. He could create works of pure imagination and also, wearable, beautiful pieces (I mean, come on, even the First Lady wears his suits).

What I always loved about his work is the way it manipulated the body into something that was sometimes grotesque and went against the body type. In all his work, there is a morbid fascination that cannot be ignored but I think was often mistaken as a f' you to the fashion world. It wasn't at all. McQueen's work is totally the fashion world, what it should be and what it could be. I don't think he should be remembered as a fashion design, but as an artist. In no other designer's clothing is there such vision, darkness, beauty and detail and in very few other contemporary artists are those things either.

I am saddened that we will never see a new McQueen creation - I didn't care for any part of that Fashion Week crap except his work - but I am overwhelmed by his obvious darkness. He took his life the day before his mother's funeral, reportedly unable to bury her. One of last things he wrote online pretty much summed up his work and obviously, the man: From heaven to hell and back again, life is a funny thing. beauty can come from the most strangest of places even the most disgusting places.

I'll miss the artist but always love the art.

Also: some great videos of his magnificent fashion shows can be found on YouTube such as this one and especially this one of his Spring 2005 show.