fill my long ears

i've been a bit obsessed with bees and beekeeping. we know this. also, too, my sister happens to have a music project called 'waitress for the bees'. also, too, again, i was a waitress for a long time. but. that has nothing to do with anything...

emma! bees! sarah burton for sure designed you a full costume set for your world tour! now let's get that booked! i will say that, instead of typing about the tearful twitchy hearthurtful joy that is always always looking at mcqueen. cause you know that already.

AND! IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO A HAT-HEADPIECE THROUGH A COLLECTION, THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT! take note, marc jacobs...

{alexander mcqueen spring 2013, photos by monica feudi at feudiguaineri.com by way of style.com}

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glimmershine

just when i was starting to worry that maybe this mcqueen wasn't the collection for me - feeling awfully bell-bottoms and david bowie*, which i'm not really showing here - along came image 5, and the inappropriate shouting of things at my computer screen because holy hell love, and then the bird brocade and i didn't have anything left to shout so i sighed a whole lot and everything was wonderful.

*not that bell-bottoms and bowie is a negative. i love bowie. and i don't HATE bell-bottoms... but it just wasn't getting the shouting-sighing that i always hope for from mcqueen. until... you know.

{alexander mcqueen resort 2013, photos courtesy of alexander mcqueen by way of style.com}

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heart

this is what i have been waiting for.

oh sad magic land where my faraway-heart lives, with the ache and the beauty and the coral and the layers and layers of soft melancholy and all of it makes sense and has a reason and a meaning that is lost in this normal world. that is mcqueen for me.

i am still, constantly, angry at mcqueen for taking his life. because the legacy he created is one of the very top reasons that i cannot imagine not living. and then, of course, because i am me, i turn from anger to sorrow and sympathy...

but there is this. and this is wonderful. and i am so happy it hurts.(and a little bit of yeti, too.)

{fall alexander mcqueen 2012, photos by monica feudi at feudiguaineri.com by way of style.com}

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