{"id":6772,"date":"2010-02-12T02:58:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T01:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6772"},"modified":"2010-02-12T03:02:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T02:02:35","slug":"alexander-mcqueen-1969%e2%80%932010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/02\/12\/alexander-mcqueen-1969%e2%80%932010\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander McQueen, 1969\u20132010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cache.net-a-porter.com\/images\/products\/32080\/32080_in_xl.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mcqueen1.jpg\" alt=\"mcqueen1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He was a Brothers Grimm of fashion, enchanting and captivating the audience with the most incredibly beautiful clothes, only to make their stomachs lurch with the underlying menace that shot through his work. Because every show contained outfits designed to thrill, shock \u2013 and catch the eye of picture editors \u2013 many people never realised that much of McQueen&#8217;s work was, quite simply, heart-stoppingly gorgeous: exquisite tailoring, beautifully sculpted dresses and glorious print.&#8221;<br \/>\nJess Cartner-Morley. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2010\/feb\/11\/alexander-mcqueen-death-cartner-morley\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Butterfly-print dresses (how fitting for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darwin Day<\/a>), Giger-style shoe designs, skull key chains&#8230; Yes, Alexander McQueen was something special.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2010\/feb\/11\/alexander-mcqueen-obituary\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian obituary<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/alexander-mcqueen-fashion-designer-who-brought-shock-and-drama-to-the-catwalk-1897009.html\" target=\"_blank\">Independent obituary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mcqueen2.jpg\" alt=\"mcqueen2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He was a Brothers Grimm of fashion, enchanting and captivating the audience with the most incredibly beautiful clothes, only to make their stomachs lurch with the underlying menace that shot through his work. Because every show contained outfits designed to thrill, shock \u2013 and catch the eye of picture editors \u2013 many people never realised &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/02\/12\/alexander-mcqueen-1969%e2%80%932010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alexander McQueen, 1969\u20132010&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,57,13],"tags":[243,1602,720,167,445],"class_list":["post-6772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-fashion","category-science","tag-alexander-mcqueen","tag-brothers-grimm","tag-hr-giger","tag-obituaries","tag-skulls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Le","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}