RIP Alexander McQueen

According to the WSJ and the UK Daily Mail, Alexander McQueen committed suicide early this morning.

Oh this is kinda wierd, sad, and unfortunate all at once. Obviously, I never knew the guy, and the "closest" I ever got to him was browsing through his store in the Meatpacking district. But it's still wierd to think about, after having seen pictures of him and his work countless times.

Perhaps this is why his site is down?

My condolences.

Lady Gaga Bad Romance Music Video

Lady Gaga's new music video for her latest single, Bad Romance, is one visually overloaded masterpiece...and, I daresay, a tribute to Alexander McQueen? How nice that they seem to have struck a reciprocating deal where, one got to play a fresh hot single to closeout his Spring Summer 2010 show, and the other got the privilege of using the extravagant shoes and even a full-on outfit from that show in her music video...

...head to toe in McQueen!...


...oh to literally be the center of attention, while wearing these shoes...


...and here they are again in white...paired very nicely with that must-have train ;)

A couple other thoughts that lead me to stake my claim that McQueen is very much alive in the styling of this vid: beyond the obvious cues to his Spring Summer 2010 show, there's also the spinal vertebral enhancements she sports...

...from time to time, McQueen is all about highlighting skeletal anatomy...

...and then there's that fabulous naked bat Lady Gaga sports along with said vertebrae...

...substitute that out with a feathered bird, outstretched wings and all, and you've got McQueen's Widows of Culloden collection from Fall 2006...

Oh and lastly, on a completely different note...props for casting the hot men in this video...all inked up and looking bad ass...especially the sexy looking lead character with the face ornament. So avant-garde, so appropriate for a Gaga video, so...Jean Paul Gaultier (especially when u take into the other headresses/masks used on the other men?)? Anybody know who he is? He looks familiar...like male model familiar...I should keep on digging and find out for myself...


...ready whenever you are...

ON REPLAY: Bad Romance by Lady Gaga

Tonight on our Top 40 Radio Station, KDWB, Lady Gaga's newest single, Bad Romance, aired on their nightly segment called The New-ish at Nine-ish, or something to that effect. The premise of the feature is to pit two new songs against each other, one is the previous night's champion, and the other the contender. Listeners call in to vote...yada yada yada...

Let's see, the first time I heard this song was at the finale for Alexander McQueen's Spring 2010 show...I remember waking up and going directly to his website to watch the streaming recording...10.07.2009. Both the song and show were fabulous. Fabulous to the max -- walking down the runway in these shoes with this song? Fabulous. FEROCIOUS.

image via fashionologie

images via style.com

So, 20 days, that's the lag-time for a hot single to finally percolate into middle America? And Lady Gaga lost tonight too! To some single by Uncle Kracker! Which took 68% of the votes! Minnesota, YOU LOSE.