Alexander McQueen

“Sometimes you just can’t say why something is powerful in a fashion show. … Halfway along, the shapes began to grow. It was as though an invisible string had been pulled and something magical happened to your sense of things: what was real, what was beautiful. Three dresses came out, blossoming in layer upon tiny frayed layer of printed chiffon—red-orange, lilac, silver-gray—and each was roundish and soft, like a dandelion head or a child’s stick-figure drawing of a human.” —Cathy Horyn, The New York Times

“Even those in the audience who queried the absence of anything approaching clothes for the everyday surrendered to the forward movement of the stunning technique. As for pushing herself, Burton has tapped a vein of absolute magic. Its spell is irresistible.” —Tim Blanks, Style.com

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