Alexander McQueen S/S '99

Few designers can execute fashion as art and fashion as fashion at the same time as well as Alexander McQueen. It was a tragic loss for the fashion world when McQueen made his departure. Fashion lost its star performer. Some designers have tried and failed to make their shows as much of an experience as McQueen's. Hussein Chalayan's older shows are among the successful few.

For McQueen's Spring/Summer 1999 runway show, two mechanical robots were stationed around legendary model, Shalom Harlow on a spinning wooden platform. A sense of suspense was built up by the way the robots pensively moved, as if they were contemplating what they should do. When a decision is reached, the way the model reacts is up to our own interpretation. The story is given to us and we are the creators of what is actually happening. It takes a true artist to involve his or her viewer without literally interacting with them. A bond was born between anyone who attended Mcqueen's S/S '99 show, and anyone who ever watches this video.

Manish Arora F 2009

I still remember the the day Hussein Chalayan dissapointed me- March 8, 2009 during Fall Fashion week in Paris. I was expecting more of his modern avant-garde. More eloquent technology transcending into fashion. But those things were nowhere to be found. So where did I get my fill for my love of lavish outrageousness? Manish Arora! An Indian designer based in New Delhi who presents his collections in either London or Paris. With the structure of Balenciaga, the colors reminiscent of a rainbow, and the fine detail of Lacroix, Arora creates some kind a catharsis of FUN.

Hussein Chalayan x Nick Knight

There are few designers I love more than Hussein Chalyan. And when I say few, I mean very few. So, seeing his clothes in an editorial? Amazing. Vintage Miyake? Equally amazing. From Vogue UK's December 08 issue. Long live avant-garde fashion.











PS - I probably won't be doing many fashion week posts anymore, at least until Paris fashion week. Simply because it's what most fashion blogs do! And I would like to keep mine interesting.