EVEN as the London Fashion Week and the rest of the world in style mourn the loss of Alexander McQueen, it’s his death more than his dying that shocks. At 40, the designer who made his millions courtesy of his shock value, took it too seriously by hanging himself. McQueen’s death has opened up many debates: the triteness of the fashion world is the easiest one. If you are in fashion you must be gay/on drugs/depressed. Sadly, McQueen was all of the above and then some.
But it’s still hotly contested whether McQueen was a genius. Toby Young, the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People , who coincidentally interviewed McQueen years ago for the Vanity Fair writes in The Telegraph : “I’m always sceptical when the word ‘genius’ is bandied about by the fashionista — more or less everything is ‘genius’ in their world, as in, ‘Love that belt, darling. It’s genius.’” He argues McQueen was no genius in the way Oscar Wilde or Jimi Hendrix was. And that “genius” or “taste” in fashion is decided upon by a few editors.
Source : http://www.indianexpress.com/news/The-Real-McQueen/583770/
But it’s still hotly contested whether McQueen was a genius. Toby Young, the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People , who coincidentally interviewed McQueen years ago for the Vanity Fair writes in The Telegraph : “I’m always sceptical when the word ‘genius’ is bandied about by the fashionista — more or less everything is ‘genius’ in their world, as in, ‘Love that belt, darling. It’s genius.’” He argues McQueen was no genius in the way Oscar Wilde or Jimi Hendrix was. And that “genius” or “taste” in fashion is decided upon by a few editors.
Source : http://www.indianexpress.com/news/The-Real-McQueen/583770/
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