McQueen's Spring 2013 collection shown in Paris on Tuesday was all about Queen Bees and Wannabes. Apparently designer Sarah Burton had apiology on the mind: Large hats resembled bee-keeping masks; trousers were printed with a honeycomb pattern, dresses were corseted and wasp-waisted; tiny golden bees flitted about on…
George Clooney And Jennifer Aniston Share Private Jet, Awkwardly Avoid …
George Clooney, Stacy Keibler, Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston shared a private jet—the Glitter Person version of splitting a cab—in Switzerland. Were this an NYU freshman playwright's hastily-penned one-act, they would experience some turbulence and blurt out their long-held secrets, resentments and desires for…
Alexander McQueen, for Aphrodites in Search of Clam Shells
Sarah Burton showed a fall collection for Alexander McQueen that mixed light and dark, futurism and romanticism, and played with ideas of volume and space. She did it in the same venue that her predecessor chose for his infamous They Shoot Horses, Don't They?-inspired dance marathon show.
The collection worked on the…
How Much Did The Met Make Off The Alexander McQueen Show?
The "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art closed on Sunday having drawn over 650,000 visitors, and in the process, becoming one of the ten most popular shows in the museum's 141-year history. Measured in attendance, McQueen is now up there with Tutankhamun, the Mona Lisa, and Picasso.…
Amy Winehouse Once Barbecued A £15,000 Alexander McQueen Dress
An old boyfriend of Alexander McQueen says that Amy Winehouse and the designer had a feud. McQueen offended the singer when they met — the boyfriend doesn't say how, but it was apparently serious enough that when McQueen sent Winehouse a £15,000 dress by way of apology, she burned it. On her barbecue. Winehouse also…
A History Of Fashion's Appropriation Of Art [NSFW]
For Christian Louboutin's latest lookbook, photographer Peter Lippmann used models to essentially recreate iconic works from art history: Whistler's Mother, Francisco de Zurbarán's St. Dorothy, and here, Jean-Marc Nattier's 1738 Portrait of the Marquise D'Antin. And added, you know, really expensive shoes. It's an old…
Three Weeks Later, Wrongest Royal Wedding Correspondent Still Mad She…
Yvonne Yorke, the Huffington Post's "award-winning journalist and Royal Contributor" is still steamed that her biggest "scoop" about Kate and William's nuptials — Yorke claimed
Met Manages To Not Fuck Up McQueen
"I want to empower women," said the late fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen. "I want people to be afraid of the women I dress." The first major museum show dedicated solely to McQueen, "Savage Beauty," has just opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. As an introduction to his work and his mind, it almost…
