In 2010, Alexander McQueen created a runway show that imagined a better future. Is this it?
that have personal significance to our editors.Alexander McQueen’s spring 2010 collection
, titled Plato’s Atlantis, it’s easy to read the show as a forebear of fashion’s streaming revolution, a herald of biomorphic and biophilic fashion, and the progenitor of our obsession with really quite bizarre footwear. Hindsight also tells us that this transfixing, monolithic runway show was McQueen’s last.
So about that McQueen show. When it debuted on the runway in October of 2009, it was advertised as the first live-streamed fashion show. Hosted on Nick Knight’s ShowStudio platform, the stream was revolutionary in that it brought one of the most cerebral of fashion world heroes to the masses. It has also become legendary—and maybe a bit infamous—for its promotion by Lady Gaga, who directed her Little Monsters to the stream, thus crashing the ShowStudio site.
McQueen’s garments themselves were a hybridization of human and animal forms, turning snakeskins and luminescent sequins into garments suggestive of a more evolved wardrobe that could, perhaps, serve a functional purpose. Darwinians would argue that fashion should have caught up by now, turning McQueen’s propositions for amphibian dresses into something more feasible.
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