Article excerpted from thediscerningbrute.com
Alexander McQueen’s nineteenth-century aristocracy inspired Fall ’09 collection is handsome, no doubt.
Even the models’ makeup made them appear to be walking out of old, sepia photographs.
While the garments were technically gorgeous – slender suits, jackets and coats with utilitarian embellishments, and just enough decoration – the sheer amount of fur, leather, and wool used to make them puts Alex’s lack of accountability and textile resourcefulness in the same century he is trying to depict.
Can you image how amazing this collection would be if it were made from organics, recycled fabrics, and animal-free materials, but looked the same? It would be visionary.
Sadly, we are almost a decade into the 21st century and we still have designers like McQueen who can’t seem to combine their amazing talent with any vision for a sustainable civilization or future where we don’t enslave and torture animals for textiles. Can someone get this man an eco-fabrics directory?
