Thread by @JulieTheCranky

Okay. Remember last night I said I’d send photos when I got home? This is the cover of “McQueen: Savage Beauty”, one of three museum catalogs I own. (Other two are Guo Pei and JAR.)

One of his collections was a lot of McQueen tartan.

This is completely a relevant to the topic, but absorb the beauty and realize this is why I’m a snob.

He did a lot of work with red, to the point that the house named that particular shade “lust red“. That is one of the identifiers that I saw on that photo last night. Also, this is why I am a snob.

More from his tartan collection, do not miss the shoes on the manikin with the dress. That is traditional socks with traditional dancing shoes made into high heels.

And since I’m here anyway, this is how he did “Japanese inspired“. You can see the difference between this and a total rip off of the culture. That’s pearls at the top, and oyster shells.

Sarah Jessica Parker wore a variation of this to the Met Gala one year, hang on and let me find it.

That is Alexander McQueen with her.

Trying to find the splat collection, which is the other one Burton ripped off for that image last night.

Also unrelated, but the bodice/jacket on this is made of gilded feathers. Also why I’m a snob.

Fuck, I miss him, and I didn’t even know the guy.

I’m positive this is a nod to Gaultier; Gaultier did some work with plaid around then, too, and never again. 💔

This is the one I’m still kicking myself for not buying. I could’ve just barely afford it when it came out. I would’ve eaten peanut butter sandwiches for two months. I should have.

There’s not much of his bloody collection in here, at the time he got a lot of shit for making women look ugly. But notice the hem on this gown.

This one might’ve been part of that collection. He was experimenting with bones and flesh and all of that jazz.

I think this one was part of that collection too, playing the part of a banshee.

Here’s one. Those are spears stuck through her. Or at least made to look that way.

Tiny marginalia photo from the runway of that collection.

So that’s about it. But you get just from the photos the idea that once you’re familiar with his work, you can pick it out. Especially since his head designer keeps using his ideas. The end.