"As Egyptian mythology has it, swarms of bees migrated across the desert first tumbled to Earth as tears from Ra, the ancient sun god. In keeping with Alexander McQueen's romantic, macabre sensibility, Sarah Burton's latter-day insects rendered in brass-each glimmering with a topaz-crystal abdomen-are meticulously handcrafted by Italian artisans ans affixed to tortoiseshell-patterned Plexiglas cuffs. It's all enough to make us buzz like... well bees on a honeycomb."
-Vogue March 2013
A Spring Dripping in Honey
I can not deny how struck I am by the artistry
of the
Alexander McQueen Spring 2013 collection.
It is a sartorial take on the natural
beauty of honeybee, it's hive and those that keep them. However
literally gorgeous the hive dresses and veiled hats, this collection goes
beyond into a darker fantasy. The allure of sweet honey and the sting of
the bees. I recognize political aspects in collection with the bridging of
urban fashion world with the natural world that Sarah Burton has
addressed in her collections before. The life of the honey bee is
threatened, celebrate this subtle and spectacular bring of awareness to the adornment of our necks, wrists, and bodies. This beauty is worth the risk of the sting, and the that is the true sensuality of spring.
“The collection is a study of femininity. We looked at erotica. Vargas
girls, cages, corsets and crinolines and the idealized female form. Nothing is set in a particular period. It’s about sensuality and
skin but not nudity. We also wanted to express lightness, for the
clothes almost to hover over the women who wear them.”
Sarah Burton
