Alexander McQueen's Death Bemoaned By Fashion World

Alexander McQueen's Death Bemoaned By Fashion World

Many are terrified to die, but for some who can no longer bear the brunt on this world, death is the only escape. On 11^th of Feb, 2010, 40-year old British fashion icon Alexander McQueen was found hanged at his home near Hyde Park in London. It was an apparent suicide said the police. Why would a person, at the top of his successful career want to end his life? Reports said distress won over Lee McQueen following his mother Joyce’s death just 8 days earlier.

He left his friends weeping and the fashion industry tragically struck. Another person whose life is of enormous value in the industry is wasted for the sake of ending it all. 24 years ago, at the age of 16, Alexander McQueen was designing suits and even made one for Prince Charles. When pulled into the fashion world by mentor Isabella Blow, McQueen proved to have found the best avenue to showcase his talents. His remarkable creations made a stir in the catwalk and won him British Designer of the Year four times and International Designer of the Year at the Council of Fashion Designer Awards.

He was indeed someone that every clothing designer should look up to. They will definitely learn much from his creations from corporate apparel designs to clothes that are turned upside down, something that are really stunning. We can look and compare other designers of this generation with McQueen, but we can only keep looking.

If corporate clothing designers would follow his steps, the landscape of the corporate world will completely become a highlight of the best fashionistas, probably become the closest to the glamorous television and movie industry. This would also greatly affect how respectable personalities of the government would have to pick their wardrobes.

Some of McQueen’s exciting creations are the super low-slung jeans, skull prints, extreme silhouettes, and sublimely ridiculous 10-inch stilettos. He also created beautiful wearable clothes such as the razor-sharp suit, pencil skirts, lovely spring and summer print collections. As for designing high-end suits, McQueen mastered it in Savile Row. As Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue would wrap it all, “He was incredibly clever at cutting clothes.