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Alexander McQueen S/S 2010 Plato's Atlantis Collection Stretch Dress 42 US 6

Name: Alexander McQueen S/S 2010 *Plato's Atlantis* Collection Stretch Dress 42 US 6
Brand: Alexander McQueen
Price: 3195 USD
Availability: InStock

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Alexander McQueen Collectible Stretch Dress S/S 2010 *Plato's Atlantis* Collection Designer size 42 - US 6 Very Stretchy and Soft, Back Zip Closure. Made in Italy New without tag. Plato's Atlantis Spring/Summer fashion collection by Alexander McQueen The Plato’s Atlantis collection was inspired by the story of the lost city of Atlantis. According to the classical philosopher Plato, the city was submerged in seawater following a volcanic eruption more than 2,000 years ago. In a process of reverse-evolution, the human race regressed to an amphibian state, creating a glistening new species that McQueen brought to life on the runway. This was the imaginative concept behind McQueen’s most spectacular show. Before focusing on the technical aspects and intricacy of his work, McQueen did his research. Layers of references were epitomized in his designs. The study by the 19th century biologist Ernst Haeckel into marine life was a huge inspiration for Plato’s Atlantis. By mirroring structures from Haeckel’s drawings, McQueen found his vision. Another reference was the alien-aquatic species in McQueen’s favorite film The Abyss. Coral, fish skin and scales permeated the collection, which included a dress made from razor clam shells.

Designer:

Alexander McQueen

Brand:

Alexander McQueen

Dimensions:

Marked Size: 42 (EU)

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

2010-

Condition:

Seller Location:

Montgomery, TX

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU653115177732

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British fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen, the original creative engine behind the Alexander McQueen label, was beloved for his expert tailoring and theatrical runway shows. After his suicide in 2010, fans left tributes to the man and his talents outside Alexander McQueen boutiques worldwide. Record-breaking crowds visited the posthumous retrospective of the designer’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Victoria and Albert in London.

The inspirations for vintage Alexander McQueen bags, dresses, jackets and other items came from many quarters — film, music, current events, history, his heritage and fashions of the past. The designer's runway presentations were not just displays of clothing but were personal expressions of the zeitgeist, often touching on our cultural anxieties and concerns. McQueen’s own thoughts and feelings about love, death, gender, genocide, colonialism, global warming and the extinction of species all appear in his pieces.

McQueen certainly shook up fashion; he was a born Rottweiler. His upbringing on a council estate in north London played a part, but his family was close and supportive, not dysfunctional. He was proud of his Scottish heritage: He was a defiant fashion warrior. His historical themes and shows — such as “Highland Rape,” 2002, which was inspired by England’s “rape of Scotland,” as McQueen called it — always invoked powerful reactions from his audience of fashion pros.

“What you see in the work is the person himself. And my heart is in my work,” McQueen told Harper’s Bazaar in 2007.

It is perhaps this heart, and the heart’s exposure, that drew the crowds and made McQueen's creations both popular and emotionally resonant. Because the work was personal and thus layered with feeling, the motifs — decorative embellishments and fabric choices — have meaning. In other words, in McQueen’s oeuvre, plaid is more than simply a pattern.

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