Anything Alexander McQueen (R.I.P)

So I think that Alexander McQueen is one of the most tragic losses in the fashion industry.
Lee Alexander McQueen was born March 17th, 1969 and as everyone knows he committed suicide on February 11th, 2010.

He had quite an interesting career, in my opinion. His first major accomplishment was an, apparently controversial, stint at Givenchy (current designer: Ricardo Tisci) from 1996, up until March of 2001. Apparently while there he did this runway show in which there were "car-robots" that spray painted cotton dresses as they went down the runway, which I find quite intricate.

McQueen's penultimate collection "Plato's Atlantis" is my favorite, and the top and bottom pictures (NOT the one with Janet Jackson who is wearing a dress, by the way, that I hate THOUGH it is McQueen), are examples from that collection. The shoes are called "Armadillos", and I love them. I think that they are perfect and, if done right, very wearable...well really only to events. Apparently he got ideas for this line because he was an "accomplished scuba-diver", according to wikipedia anyway.

Celebrities I have seen wearing his collection: Kristen Stewart, Salma Hayek, Anna Paquin, Drew Barrymore, Lady Gaga, Bjork, Kate Moss and so, so many more.

He really is someone who will be missed. I wonder what is going to happen to his comapny. Are they going to appoint a new designer? Or is it going to be like Margiela where there is a sort of group of designers, or whatever it is that they do.

Anyway, that's all for that. I love(d) McQueen, and if they do pick someone new I hope that they are really good.

Insanely High Shoes

So another thing I like about fashion is: insanely high heels.
While I'm a guy, and I would never wear heels, I think that they are awesome. If I could style a woman she would probably have horrible bunions from the shoes I would make her wear, but I still think they are necessary.
Where would Mary-Kate Olsen be without the Balenciaga Harness Boot (pictured above) ? And where would they be without the Yves Saint Laurent tribtoo pump (the picture all the way on the bottom, and what Ashley is wearing in the picture of the two)?
I think that they make women seem more powerful in a way. I'm not sure if that is really the right way to describe it, but I really think that they are a must have in a woman's wardrobe.
DSquared also makes a pretty awesome platform shoe, but they are quite crazy so I didn't put one up, they almost verge on tranny stripper. I mean I love them, but it's a fine line.

Lara Stone

Lara Stone is one of my favorite models, and here's why:

-She's Dutch, which I think is pretty cool because when I went to Amsterdam, everyone seemed really happy. She was born in Geldrop, The Netherlands.

-She's got tig ol' bitties. I read in Love Magazine, pictured above, that her boobs are size 32F, which is quite huge.

-She has been in quite a bunch of my favorite magazines: i-D (pictured above, "The God's Gift" issue #293, 2008) and "The Flesh and Blood Issue", not pictured but I love it. She was also on the cover of Love Magazine (above), V Magazine #55, W Magazine back in 2009, the March 2010 cover of Interview Magazine and many more.

-She is #1 on www.models.com, which is quite awesome. For the longest time the #1 was Raquel Zimmermann, who is another model I love, but they changed it to Lara recently and Raquel was moved to the icons list.

-She's been in some pretty awesome ads, including the current Louis Vuitton ones, as well as the current H&M ads and of course many more.

-She's got gapped teeth and some of my other favorite models (Abbey Lee Kershaw and Georgia Jagger, for example) are rockin' the gap, I love it.

There are many other reasons that I love the Stone. For one thing I have watched interviews with her and she has a cute, awkward little accent/personality. She's adorable. I think that she is different looking enough, without just being repulsive, for example: Jamie Bochert and Iekeliene Stange who both remind me of Voldemort. Sorry to both of them I mean they're doing what they do but I personally feel like both of them are so insanely strange looking. So all in all, that is what I have to talk about right now: Lara Stone, one of my favorite things about fashion.