Archive for February 2010
Fashion designer Alexander McQueen found dead
Lee McQueen, the founder of fashion house Alexander McQueen, was found dead at his flat today, aged just 40 years old. Paramedics called to his home pronounced him dead at the scene. Police said his death was not being treated as suspicious.
A statement said his family were “devastated” at the “tragic news”, and said that they shared “a sense of shock and grief”.
A former British Designer of the Year winner, Mr McQueen started his career as an apprentice in Savile Row, where he learned how to make jackets at Gieves and Hawkes.
In 1996, the man nicknamed “the hooligan of English fashion”, with his close-cropped hair and Doc Martens, was named head designer at the Paris couture house of Givenchy.
He will be sadly missed by all who knew him and by many who didn’t. He was a huge talent and cited by some as a genius in the fashion world.
Source www.telegraph.co.uk
Lee McQueen
My two biggest fears
According to QI, human beings are born with only two inbuilt fears: the fear of loud noises and the fear of falling. All other fears are abnormal and have to be learned.
Source www.bbc.co.uk.
As I work on the fourth floor of a 15-story building and the people in the office next door are really noisy, that’s two fears taken care of already. The other two – spiders and opening credit card statements after Christmas are apparently abnormal and had to be learnt. I must have had a good teacher.
