I was deeply saddened and affected by the news today that British fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen had passed away in an apparent suicide triggered by the death of his mother about a week ago. The suicide of his friend Isabella Blow (who helped discover Lee, also in the above David LaChapelle photo for Vanity Fair making it quite ominous, note the skull looking thing bottom right, both are now dead, holding McQueen's train who is in drag, brandishing a flame in front of a burning Hedingham Castle and a fallen knight) three years ago was apparently also a contributing factor; these suicides in the world of high fashion are quite indicative of the fashion industry as a whole. I'm not particularly in the mood for speculation but Isabella's relationship with her military office father is somewhat suspicious (Sir Evelyn Delves Broughton) and her mother's behavior following her brother John's death age 2 who drowned in a pool then her mother calmly went upstairs to put lipstick on (see this Mail article for details on her messed up "elite" family and also has info on her former husband's). Isabella's husband (aristocrat art dealer Detmar Blow) left her "so Detmar could father a son with a fertile woman and ensure his particular branch of the Blow family would remain in charge of Hilles" (typical "elite" obsession with keeping power within the bloodline). During this period she underwent electroshock "therapy" for "bipolar disorder" (usually just used as an umbrella [mis]diagnosis for various psychological disorders like DID; these electroshock sessions may have had something to do with her repeated suicide attempts, potentially where her self-destruction programming got started) before eventually successfully committing suicide after numerous attempts. Now McQueen has joined her in committing suicide, it has been reported that he hung himself.
Isabella below with photographer David Bailey (above with McQueen).
With milliner Philip Treacy, whose career she helped get off the ground also (symbolic hats and the boy's faceless black mask is the most sinister). Below with Kuwaiti royal family member Sheik Majed al-Sabah (serpent-like pink/purple headpiece).
As far as I am concerned they are just more victims of the fashion industry and the "elites" that control it, I won't post an article from the media as they just seem to be endless tributes and clichés when someone connected dies. So here is my quick 'tribute post' of a few images pertaining to him I haven't yet posted, I was genuinely upset by this news when I heard it on the radio driving home today (especially because I was a bit worried my posts may have contributed, though I considered it very unlikely, a commenter stated that it had and claimed to know someone who knew McQueen personally, but I suspect they are not being truthful [Edit: My initial reaction of sadness and shock had nothing to do with the commenter, looks like I was correct in that they were full of it, just someone using this man's death to mess with the blog for their own amusement.]). Bearing in mind his death now, his skull and bones themes in his final fashion show are all the more significant, arguably foreshadowing his own demise.
Alexander McQueen wearing the White Rabbit head (I think it is him anyway, they are interviewing him in the piece called 'Alexander McQueen' so it's supposed to represent him either way). McQueen at the end of one of his fashion shows as the White Rabbit below. From "McQueen's Kingdom" (W Magazine, photographer Steven Klein) with the masked models, all in black, one riding Satan/Baphomet, the other two hanging in the air, one upside down. Here is one of his campaigns from last year, with it's primary themes being multiple [personality] mirror and fractured [mind] mirror effects, black/white checker patterns and red. Check out this post for some more videos of his various fashion shows featuring symbolic themes (particularly of note are the below occult one, checkerboard one). Here is another intriguing show to finish which I had not posted from one of his Autumn/Winter 2001 show (carousel horses, venetian mask makeup) and after it in the same video, a short clip of a show the following year (model as the Spanish bull fighting impaled sacrificial bull).
