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Alexander McQueen, from Widows of Culledon AW 2006 collection, photo © Chris Moore<br />

THE IMAGINARIUM OF<br />

A L E X A N D E R M C Q U E E N<br />

L’undici Febbraio duemiladieci è morto Lee Alexander<br />

McQueen. La sua scomparsa ha soffocato nel dolore tutti<br />

coloro che lo amavano: la sua famiglia, che in lui ha perso<br />

un figlio, un fratello, un amico ed un collega, e tutti noi, che<br />

abbiamo perso un poeta.<br />

McQueen era uno stilista unico: con la sua smisurata creatività<br />

e la maestria nel taglio, egli si distingueva da tutti gli<br />

altri. Le sue creazioni provenivano da mondi fantastici che<br />

nascevano nei suoi occhi e venivano interamente ricreati<br />

nelle sue sfilate. Assistere ad un suo show voleva dire lasciarsi<br />

trascinare nell’immaginario dello stilista: tra le fiamme, al<br />

circo, a teatro, nel mondo subacqueo, in quello animale o in<br />

mezzo ai rottami, sulle punte di una ballerina o sulla scia di<br />

un pattinatore sul ghiaccio, i suoi abiti erano protagonisti di<br />

un sogno tridimensionale.<br />

Egli era l’Hans Christian Andersen della moda: raccontava<br />

storie incredibili attraverso il taglio delle stoffe (McQueen<br />

tagliava ancora la maggior parte delle sue creazioni) e le<br />

contestualizzava in questi universi onirici che lasciavano a<br />

bocca aperta chiunque. Ispirato anche dal XVIII e il XIX<br />

secolo, egli era un romantico con un incredibile senso del<br />

pathos. L’ologramma di Kate Moss proiettato a conclusione<br />

di una sfilata è sicuramente il momento più lirico, e al<br />

contempo ironico, del mondo delle passerelle. La modella,<br />

che era appena stata travolta dallo scandalo mediatico sulla<br />

cocaina, fluttuava nel buio come in un’angelica visione raffaellesca<br />

della Madonna ed era accompagnata da un violino<br />

dolorosissimo, quello da tutti comunemente associato con<br />

la tragedia dell’olocausto. Magnifico.<br />

“L’evoluzione nella moda” era la risposta che dava a chiunque<br />

gli chiedesse quale fosse il fine ultimo delle sue scelte<br />

audaci; audaci poi, secondo lui aveva poco senso non esserlo:<br />

di realtà ce n’è già troppa, bisogna adoperare la fantasia, bisogna<br />

osare con la fantasia.<br />

Alexander McQueen era un poeta contemporaneo dell’organza<br />

e della seta, un uomo nato con la Luna, il Sole e<br />

Mercurio sotto il segno dei Pesci: la sua creatività era così<br />

illimitata da contemplare anche il macabro, la celebrazione<br />

della morte che lo affascinava tanto essendo “romantica e<br />

triste perché fine di un ciclo, ma positiva perché fa spazio<br />

alle cose che verranno dopo di te”.<br />

Nato sotto il segno dei Pesci<br />

Born under the sign of Pisces<br />

170 171<br />

by <strong>Sada</strong> <strong>Ranis</strong><br />

On February 11th 2010 died Lee Alexander McQueen. The grief for his<br />

passing away overwhelmed the ones who loved him: his family, which<br />

lost a son, a friend and a colleague and all of us who lost a Poet.<br />

McQueen was a unique fashion designer; his boundless creativity and<br />

mastery of cutting set him apart from anyone else. His creations used<br />

to come from imaginary worlds that arose in his eyes and were wholly<br />

recreated in his shows. Being present to one of these events used to<br />

mean abandoning to the designer’s imaginarium and being carried away<br />

in the flames, in a circus, in the underwater or animal worlds, by wrecks,<br />

on a ballerina’s points or in the wake of an ice skater. His dresses used<br />

to be the protagonists of a three-dimensional dream.<br />

McQueen was for fashion what Hans Christian Andersen was for literature:<br />

he used to tell amazing stories through cloth cutting. He still used<br />

to cut himself the majority of his creations and contextualize them in<br />

dream-like Universes that would leave anyone agape. Inspired by 18th<br />

and 19th Centuries, he was a Romantic with a far-out sense of pathos.<br />

Kate Moss’ hologram projected at the end of one of his shows will certainly<br />

remain the most poetic and at the same time ironic moment in<br />

the world of fashion shows. The model, who at the time had just been<br />

overcome by the cocaine scandal, wavered in the dark like an angelic<br />

Raphaelesque vision of a Madonna and was accompanied by a grievous<br />

violin music, the one generally associated with the Holocaust tragedy.<br />

Just magnificent.<br />

“Evolution in fashion” was the answer he used to give to anyone who<br />

would ask what was the final aim of his daring choices. Daring, according<br />

to him, was the only attitude that made sense as reality is everywhere<br />

and it is important to be imaginative and daring with imagination.<br />

Alexander McQueen was a contemporary poet of organza and silk. He<br />

was born with the Moon, the Sun and Mercury under the sign of Pisces:<br />

his creativity was so boundless it also included macabre elements. He<br />

was fascinated by Death as he believed it was “romantic and melancholic<br />

as it is the end of a cycle, but positive as it makes space for what<br />

will come after oneself”.

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