Merci, Paris’s latest concept shopping sensation, is housed in an elaborately reconfigured 19th-century fabric factory. Inside, three loft-like floors heave with furniture, jewellery, stationery, fashion, household products, childrenswear and a haberdashery. That’s not all. In a move that takes the trend for retailer responsibility to a new level, this most generous of general stores gives all its profits to charity.
111 boulevard Beaumarchais
3e
Paris
Femme Fatale
Costin’s previous jewellery, which McQueen had used in his graduation show in 1992, employed the techniques of taxidermy and dissection. The deathly references were explicit in this collection in which fashion became the locus of darker meanings. The jet headpiece made the memento mori imagery explicit, as did a McQueen lace top which extended over the head to cover the face like a hangman’s hood.
Alexander McQueen, Dante, Fall–Winter 1996–1997 Photography Niall McInerney
Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity and Deathliness by Caroline Evans, Yale University Press
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To attain style in dress, you must look perfectly happy and relaxed in your clothes which must appear part of you rather than a wardrobe you have just donned.
Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers; style is what you choose.
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