Alexander McQueen Illustrations and Paris Fashion Week.

Yesterday i did a post about the illustrations featured on the Birdy & Me blog. This led onto looking at various fashion illustrators. A fashion illustrators work is always very stylized and each designer's drawings are unique from the last. I decided to see if I could find any illustrations from my all time favourite haute couture designer the late Alexander McQueen. I came across numerous images and I was not disappointed!It is amazing to see the working process of a world famous designer. Here is my favourite:

I thought it would also be fitting to mention McQueen's spring/summer collection 2011 that was shown at Paris Fashion Week. Sarah Burton, the new creative director of Alexander McQueen, revived the late designer's challenging legacy with a brilliant first collection inspired a bohemian spirit and featuring spectacular hand-crafted details.

The spring/summer 2011 collection included dazzling prints, dresses in raffia and tailcoated-trouser suits with horse-hair spines. One-shoulder dresses were handworked from individual ivy leaves in leather, which entwined the body. The clothes were accessorized with gold, square-toed, hobnail boots with hand-carved heels.

The concept of the collection was true to the spirit of Alexander McQueen in its dramatic silhouettes, but introduced a new mood of romance. The collection concluded with a spectacular parade of gothic and medieval gowns, in poppy-printed silk, shadow-dyed chiffon, and gold raffia and pheasant feathers, ending with a huge crinoline in smoke-grey ostrich feathers.





Sarah Burton, 35, born in Manchester, and, like the late designer, a graduate of Central Saint Martins in London, began working for McQueen in 1996. She was his atelier right-hand, and head of womenswear, up until his death by suicide in February of 2009. Her appointment as creative director of one of the most innovative and respected young British fashion brands was announced in May this year.