Alexander Mcqueen

This essay will discuss the historical-, philosophical-, and theoretical background of House and Street by Stuart Davis created in 1931. This art is a typical example of the look and feel of the Modern Movement style.

What do Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Jean Paul Gaultier and Alexander McQueen have in common? They are designers who have challenged ideas on gender norms. (Marcangell, pg.1) McQueen fearlessly challenged the conventions of fashion. Rare among designers, he saw beyond clothing's physical constraints to its conceptual and imaginative possibilities. (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2015)

Artist Drew Hamilton’s, Street Corner Project exhibits the transformation of the view of American art and aesthetics. What was once viewed as beautiful art has changed with out modern art. The artist chose to exhibit his very own Bushwick apartment over the neighborhood bodega in Brooklyn. The artist Drew Hamilton’s artistic choice to change the standard view on aesthetic artwork depicting a true view of the neighborhood through his mini model. Drew Hamilton’s creation of the mini model that mimics the scene of everyday life of Brooklyn residents. Hamilton refashions the basic norms of aesthetics by inventing a new form of imperfect perfection and reaming true to the actual view of his apartment.

Ron Mueck is a hyper realistic artist whose main focus is on rendering the human experience through the sculpture of people. Mueck stirs emotion with his sculptures and make people really think about the human body in a new way. In contrast to Mueck’s emotional and heavy artworks; Alexander McQueen, a British fashion designer focused on hiding the human experience with clothing, that often pushed the boundaries on what we traditionally think of as fashion is the opposite. McQueen’s fashions and works of art are definitely pieces that make a statement and push the boundaries. He got his inspiration from film, music, and everywhere he could find it. These two artists are both concerned with the human body and how to create a sense of awe with their individual and different audiences. The audiences of the two artists are dramatically different. McQueen’s audience is those in the fashion world, while Meuck’s audience are those in the art world.

“When I’m dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen” (Lee Alexander McQueen). On March 17, 1969, Lee Alexander McQueen was born in Lewisham, South London. Born into a family of 7 and being the youngest things were not always easy for Lee. Beginning at a young age he was forced to work long hours and eventually was expected to become a taxi driver like his father (Watt 10). Lee was different “(he) remembers drawing on the wall of his bedroom at the age of three, particularly a Cinderella-style gown with a crinoline, much to his father’s irritation” (Watt 11). With a peculiar love for birds, synchronized swimming and a unique sense of style McQueen commonly described

What I found unique about Alexander McQueen?s pieces were the construction of his designs. History, cultures, animals, and nature inspired him. ?His designs often references the exaggerated silhouettes of the 1860s, 1880s, 1890s, and 1950s? (blog.metmuseum.org/alexandermcqueen/about), but with his innovative mind he pushed the silhouettes to their limits to create a whole new silhouette that surprised and set the scale for designers world

Because nothing screams summer louder than bright colors, cool textures and dressing up by dressing down, Kamilah Willacy has taken on task of creating unique and artistic clutches that will surely make everyone’s eyes turn on you. While Kamilah began her studies to become an architect, the moment she landed in New York City and became a model, she knew the calling in her life was fashion. She soon enrolled at the prestigious FIT, but decided to travel to Milan to finish her studies at Polimoda.

Blasé Project explores representations of identities, behaviors & style in the 21st Century’s art and society, through a series of acts taking on the codes of fashion and media. Blasé means unimpressed with, or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before. Blasé can also be interrupted as being bored from over indulgence. My exploration of the construct Blasé started as an intertextual response to G. Simmel’s essay “Metropolis & the Mental Life” (1903). Simmel examines the factors and manifestations of this psychic state of indifference, typical to the urban individual.

The importance of this is to take a look of the past style over the decades from the early 1800’s to current day and to keep in consideration how that evolved into a similar piece in an individual's closet. There has not been an era that was overlooked. Along with history, we take inspiration from the past along with where it went wrong, modify with changes to give it a go in today’s fashion.

Walking through the streets of London is an experience on its own, but when one takes a moment to truly observe, that’s when the (not-so) underground world of street art opens up. Nearly every surface, even the discarded gum on the ground, is covered in brightly rendered and dizzyingly beautiful works painted by renown street artists (like Ben Wilson and Shepard Fairey), and unknown artists alike. Camilla Walala, a street artist, recently painted the entire façade of the SpliceTV building in Shoreditch, London effectively transforming the plain building into a piece of living art. Camilla’s work along with countless others proves that the colorful streets of London have far outgrown the term “graffiti” and London has now emerged as fully

Remix culture, or ‘read-write culture’ , lets people generate “art as readily as they consume it” . In Lawrence Lessig’s book Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, he argues that the contemporary generation’s form of ‘literacy’ is technologically-based . In this contemporary society, technology plays a significant role in the appropriation and ‘hacking’ of art, music and film making it difficult to distinguish what is piracy and what is creative. Italian furniture designer, Martino Gamper, takes the creative approach by recycling and appropriating in his 2006 work 100 Chairs in 100 Days. By reconfiguring and remixing the design of 100 abandoned, second-hand chairs, Gamper explores the collaboration between styles and structural elements giving new life and meaning to one chair a day. His collection results in a collage of unique design pieces that respond to their place of origination, often poetic and humourous in nature. Gamper’s Sonet Butterfly (fig. 1) was

Many of those involved in Contemporary art today, may criticise the conceptualist style in which the latest batch of artists work as ‘lazy’. The general feeling that the philosophy behind the piece has overcome the form of ‘craft’ or design has brought many new artist into the firing line for criticism. Through evaluating the works of artists such as Marcel Duchamp who made conceptualism a main focus in modern art today, it’s understandable how very few links can be made from the ‘Duchampian’ style to the works of current artists such as Damien Hirst or Tracy Emin. However, by looking at Hirst and Emin’s approach to their works, persona and conceptualism as a whole, This essay

“It was a coup for Alex, and a coup for American fashion,” said Diane von Furstenberg. But,

Coco Chanel was one of the most prominent fashion designers of the 20th century. Her contribution in the development of fashion can hardly be underestimated. In fact, she revolutionized fashion in a way, since she was one of the first fashion designers who made women think of themselves first rather than think how they look for their men, which was a traditional view on female fashion at the epoch. In actuality, the significance and her great contribution in the development of fashion as well as 20th century culture at large was marked by her contemporaries as well as modern specialists. For instance, she was the only person in the field of fashion design to be named on TME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the 20th

“I know what women want. They want to be beautiful” (www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Valentino) said Valentino Garavani who was one of the most influential fashion designs of the 20th and 21st century, “Known for his classic designs, he's been dressing the world’s rich and famous for almost the last five decades. Valentino has built his once small fashion house into a fashion empire.” (www.lifeinitaly.com/fashion/valentino-garavini.asp) His career in fashion started in the fifties but his passion for it began as a young child with the approval and encouragement of his parents. Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani was born in Italy in 1932 where he lived for 17 years until he left for Paris to study fashion at the famous school of L’ecole de la