Alexander McQueen Commits Suicide!
posted by Maggie's Nest at
2/12/2010 
Following the endless success of his fashion shows and creative designs, a news just broke out yesterday morning that Alexander McQueen killed himself. He was found dead at his flat in London, believed to have hung himself!
The fashion industry mourned the loss of the fashion designer who was looked upon as one of the greatest talent of his generation. Vogue editor Anna Wintour has issued a statement on his passing while other designers, editors, and models expressed their shock and sadness on Twitter.
Known for his Gothic sensibility and razor-sharp tailoring, Alexander McQueen's creations have always been dramatic, out-of-this-world, experimental and modern. His ability to envision what's next in fashion was rewarded with critical and financial success.
But beneath the genius craftsmanship, Alexander McQueen's life was sometimes gloomy and bizarre. Two of the closest women in his life have already died - his mother passed just last week while his mentor Isabella Blow died in 2007 from suicide. (Devastated by his mentor's death, the mourning fashion designer once told Isabella's husband that he'd been to his psychic who comforted him by saying that Isabella was doing just fine in the afterlife and was spending time with her fantastic cannibal grandmother.)
As the rest of the fashion world grieved for Alexander McQueen, editor of the New York Times style magazine Stefano Tonchi also pointed out that the fashion industry itself might be as responsible for the tragedy as any of McQueen's personal travails:
"I think it is just the tip of the iceberg. We all know that this is a very critical moment in fashion, and that basically he is the first victim of what is a conflict between creativity and business. Today to be a fashion designer, you have to be a superman or superwoman. You have to have nerves of steel. You have to be so strong. And if you are a little bit weak, if you have psychological problems or weakness, you end up like him.
"Do you remember how many people were getting killed by the job? The Marilyn Monroes, the James Deans. It was the same kind of self-destruction complex that brings you to kill yourself or do something so stupid as suicide.
"We cannot look at the poor Alexander McQueen, abused child or abuser of substance. I think you have to put it in a larger context in terms of the fashion system. He's just one of the little cogs that got squeezed."
The Alexander McQueen store in the Meatpacking District has been closed until Saturday. A white shade was drawn over the 14th Street windows, where mourners with roses have gathered.
The fashion designer's friends, family, and millions of admirers all over the world have just lost Lee Alexander McQueen — a great talent who has always been known to take the rapidly changing medium in stride, find inspiration in the tumult of technology, and create so much beauty in the midst of so much sadness.
The fashion industry mourned the loss of the fashion designer who was looked upon as one of the greatest talent of his generation. Vogue editor Anna Wintour has issued a statement on his passing while other designers, editors, and models expressed their shock and sadness on Twitter.
Known for his Gothic sensibility and razor-sharp tailoring, Alexander McQueen's creations have always been dramatic, out-of-this-world, experimental and modern. His ability to envision what's next in fashion was rewarded with critical and financial success.
But beneath the genius craftsmanship, Alexander McQueen's life was sometimes gloomy and bizarre. Two of the closest women in his life have already died - his mother passed just last week while his mentor Isabella Blow died in 2007 from suicide. (Devastated by his mentor's death, the mourning fashion designer once told Isabella's husband that he'd been to his psychic who comforted him by saying that Isabella was doing just fine in the afterlife and was spending time with her fantastic cannibal grandmother.)
As the rest of the fashion world grieved for Alexander McQueen, editor of the New York Times style magazine Stefano Tonchi also pointed out that the fashion industry itself might be as responsible for the tragedy as any of McQueen's personal travails:
"I think it is just the tip of the iceberg. We all know that this is a very critical moment in fashion, and that basically he is the first victim of what is a conflict between creativity and business. Today to be a fashion designer, you have to be a superman or superwoman. You have to have nerves of steel. You have to be so strong. And if you are a little bit weak, if you have psychological problems or weakness, you end up like him.
"Do you remember how many people were getting killed by the job? The Marilyn Monroes, the James Deans. It was the same kind of self-destruction complex that brings you to kill yourself or do something so stupid as suicide.
"We cannot look at the poor Alexander McQueen, abused child or abuser of substance. I think you have to put it in a larger context in terms of the fashion system. He's just one of the little cogs that got squeezed."
The Alexander McQueen store in the Meatpacking District has been closed until Saturday. A white shade was drawn over the 14th Street windows, where mourners with roses have gathered.
The fashion designer's friends, family, and millions of admirers all over the world have just lost Lee Alexander McQueen — a great talent who has always been known to take the rapidly changing medium in stride, find inspiration in the tumult of technology, and create so much beauty in the midst of so much sadness.
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