After
Lee
SARAH BURTON has
revealed that, almost two years since the death of the "genius" Lee Alexander McQueen, she is glad she agreed to take over as
his former label's creative director.
"He was such a genius; inspiring
and funny and an incredible man," she said. "I could never pretend to
be him but when I look back now, I'm glad that I took the job - because it kept
the studio alive in his spirit, and it kept the team together. Because what did
he work so hard for all those years if it was all just going to
disappear?"
Burton spoke as McQueen launched its first store in Beijing in October, in a just-released film created
in collaboration with Hong Kong store Joyce. The designer, who also made the Duchess of Cambridge's wedding dress this year, spoke about
the creation of this season's most intricate dresses: the "broken
plate" gowns - giving an idea of just what goes in to the famously
couture-esque collection.
"We took a cast of a body and
poured the porcelain so it fitted that body," Burton explained. "Then
we hand-painted ten different plates, dissected them as if they were broken and
then we engineered the image on to a bodice. Then we hand-cut all the pieces
out from the mould we had and then we made each of those pieces again
individually and numbered them. It was like a jigsaw puzzle!"
Source: VOGUE - LAUREN
MILLIGAN 21 December 2011
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