The McQueen Male 2012

Alexander McQueen
MILAN, January, 2012
BY:TIM BLANKS
When words like obsession and fetish cross the lips of Burton for McQueen, you know you’re in for a theme park ride through the sparkled, darkling world that Alexander McQueen bequeathed to fashion. It’s not anything Burton shies away from. In fact, with her new menswear collection, she talked about creating “the male equivalent of the McQueen woman.” Burton aim was most obvious in a mini-capsule of bespoke pieces that will be made to order in tandem with the Savile Row tailors Huntsman: a dinner jacket, a Prince of Wales check double-breasted suit, a black cashmere double-breasted overcoat.The formality of that deal set the tone for the rest of the collection. The starting point was portraits from the original nineteenth- Read more…