ALEXANDER McQUEEN READY-TO-WEAR FALL-WINTER 2000. Paris Fashion Week. RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® Collections Special Selection “Fashion Treasure”.
One of the greatest designers who reformed and influenced fashion, who let his “Angels and Demons” out.
The innovations of this collection were set as trend, multiplied and repeated later by many designers like Iris van Herpen. She was the one, who picked up mostly all style patterns of Alexander McQueen.
This collection is indeed a triumph of invention in fashion and the most progressive technologies. The famous piece : the formed breasts on the top piece created for the first time by Alexander McQueen, lately repeated by Jean Paul Gaultier in Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2003 collection, by Iris van Herpen in the collections of 2012, and many many others.
This collection of Alexander McQueen was inspired by African culture. And this collection has several spectacular pieces which also became trend for the next 20 years : puffy “flower” shoulders for Stephane Rolland, leather and jean applications for Jean Paul Gaultier, 3D laser print technics for many fashion designers of today.