On Tuesday, Alexander McQueen will be honored with the Outstanding Achievement in Fashion Design at the 2010 British Fashion Awards in London.
The award, which is being handed out by the British Fashion Council, “celebrates the achievement of a designer whose work has had an exceptional impact on global fashion."
In addition to the award, Tuesday's event will begin with a film of McQueen's most iconic looks shot by Nick Knight and set to the music of Bjork.
Following her beautiful Gloomy Sunday performance at the Alexander McQueen memorial, Bjork has written a small piece for GQ.com remembering the late designer.
She writes:
I felt Lee's raw connection with nature and birth and death was very refreshing. When I moved to London, being from Iceland, I sometimes found the self-importance in the UK's obsession with the decay of its empire boring, to insist the whole world is dying with them. This urban apocalyptic aesthetic is still a bit overdriving, a bit teenage really… it mostly just reveals its impotency.
Lee had so many ideas that he overcame this dilemma with fertility, raw gusto, sense of fun and courage. He was the kind of daredevil that looks death and birth straight in the eye. Lee managed to connect not only with the civilized part of his culture but somehow channel beyond that a more primordial energy, which is probably where me and him met.
Even though we were very different, we had in common taking inspiration from nature: building from there just gave you way more options! Even though we have our neighborhoods fading with pollution, we still have the energy of this solar system driving us through with more explosive power, fuel and potential than there ever was… it's all there for you and Lee knew that.
Kanye West may not have been having the best week - between the gay rumors, his latest temper tantrum, and a bruised up Lamborghini - but we have a feeling that with this weekend, all of that's about to change!
The sometimes-volatile yet supremely talented rapper has been hard at work recording his new album in Paris, and apparently, has few very creative, larger than life tricks up his sleeve for how he's going to begin its promotional campaign!
Which, of course, started last night, when he projected a video of himself performing his brand new single, New Slaves, onto the sides of 66 BUILDINGS LOCATED ALL OVER THE WORLD!
Ch-ch-check out to what the folks of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, were treated on the corner of Bedford and N. 7 (above)!
