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Sarah Burton is clearly amazing. The pic below if my favourite from the Alexander McQueen FW 2012 collection and it is the-top-view-of-a-tornado-amazing. Considering the whole collection: the first cranberry dress surprised me, the belts excited me and the shoes, as always, were extravagant, insane and beautiful. I hope to one day possess the mad skillz that she has in her little finger. But, alas, she doesn’t do it for me like McQueen did. I identify with his madness and hostility because although his art was beautiful, it was also ugly. The ugliness made it remarkable and elevated him beyond most other designers. McQueen used contrast, texture and storytelling to take the audience out of their environment, whether it was me, sitting at home in my room in my parents’ basement or Daphne Guinness perched front row in all her glamour. He drew the pain or joy or contemplation out of himself and dripped it into his art.

This has all been getting me thinking, lately. I am going to (somehow) do this for real. Finally. I want to pull out my own guts and smear them across my work. As graphic as the image is: why the hell not? I makes better work, in my opinion. Art needs soul. Fashion is a business on the outside but if you look closer, it is interwoven with love and sweat and life. As much as we try to turn it all off, they are always a part of everything.

There is a good chance that all this is crap as I have never actually BEEN to a McQueen show. If that’s the case, I am ready to be schooled.

Check out the rest of the collection:

http://www.fashionising.com/runway/b—alexander-mcqueen-aw-12-21651.html#58