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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It’s a sackable offense this collection. I could easily have made it digestible but I didn’t want to. It’s not safe in any way. It’s a punked up McQueen It Girl parody of a certain ideal of a woman who never existed in the first place. It’s Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany’s. It’s Dior. It’s Valentino’s ladies who lunch. It’s the women you see in those old images by [Irving] Penn. They’re caricatures of their time and I’ve pushed that caricature even further. The long leg the supersized houndstooth… Everything is extreme. Extreme-d. An illusion. I’m always interested in depicting the age that we live in and this collection depicts the silliness of our age. I think people will look back at it and know that we were living through a recession when I designed it that we got to this point because of rampant indiscriminate consumption. They’ll know that we’re referencing recycling but in a twisted way. That’s why the set is a pile of rubbish and why I have to make clothes out of bin liners and broken records. Of course I’m not really making clothes out of bin liners and broken records. They’re silks. There’s an irony to it to all of it and I hope people will see that too. The whole package: the set the lighting the soundtrack the girls all of it sums up the fact that we’re living in a mess. And I want to throw that at the audience and to make them think. It’s an idea then another idea then another and another and another. I want people to look at it and say: What’s that? What’s that? What’s that? What’s that? What the hell is that?” Lee Alexander McQueen. (OS)