Tag: ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

The late, great Alexander McQueen could do anything, but he specialized in the strange and beautiful. So when The Hairpin alerted us to Lernert and Sander's tribute to the extreme shoe for Selfridges, it was clear that the design duo took a page from McQueen's breathtaking book. Shoes made of irons, brooms and modern sewing machines are not meant to be worn, but mix the banal with the extreme -- ...

If you live in Britain and are accustomed to bulky AC plugs (as we in the States are), London-based design student Min-Kyu Choi is about to turn your world upside-down. Or, at least, that's what the judges at the Brit Insurance Design of the Year competition would have you believe. Choi's design beat out the late Alexander McQueen's ravishing, alien-inspired Spring/Summer 2010 collection for the ...