Alexander McQueen, arguably the worlds most innovative and influential designer of last decade was found dead today in his London home. Undoubtably devastating for anyone who knew him but also a blow the thousands of fashion students, graduates and professionals who were inspired by him every day. It’s a sad notion that we will never again be exposed to McQueen’s own fresh fashion genius.

Alexander McQueen – Autumn(Fall)/Winter – 2009/2010 Women’s Collection on Fashionising.com

Last night was joint Haiti fundraiser come club kid and party scene event organizer Daniel Lismore’s birthday.  Outlandish outfits and makeup surprised the bouncers one after the other as they lined up outside Punk club on Soho street in the west end. There were extravagant caberet and drag acts all round in aid of raising money for Haiti, lots of giving good face and best of all a performance from inspirational Model, face of torture garden and musician Viktoria Modesta performed tracks live. No-one was to outdo Daniel’s own ensemble inclusive of Mechano headdress. Checkout photos at the link below…

Viktoria Modesta on myspace
Photo’s from the Event by MEGA MEGA MEGA
Daniel Lismore’s Blog

Inspired by Lady Gaga’s locks in her recent shoot for 944 magazine I began reminiscing about my own teen craving for achieving perfect pink hair. During my teens I tried many times for hot pink but ended up with variants of fuchsia, lilac, Burgundy and Orange. My earliest icon driving this desire for a scandalous hair was Jem – remember her? Jem was the fictional Jerrica Benton AKA glam-pop icon of the late 1980’s lead vocalist of Jem and the Holograms. When I reached my teen years by obsession with pink hair remained but shifted from fictional pop icons to real-life songstress Gwen Stefani, lead vocalist of ska-rock band No Doubt. When the videos to Simple Kind Of  Life and Ex-Girlfriend were released I was mesmerized.  Just in case you have not seen either video the first sees Stefani running wild in a vast wedding dress and a pink almost-afro whereas the latter sees her hair in sleeker giant pink braids. The naughties icon for pink hair was the aptly named Pink (or P!nk more accurately), so it seems there is a pink hair icon to spur young easily led girls on through almost every modern decade. Now it seems I wasn’t alone, even other celebrities of the naughties and the now  ( or 20ten’s, tens, teens… not sure what we call this decade yet) are taking to dying their coiffures fuchsia and candy-floss colours; Lily Allen rocked up to the Glamour “Women of the Year” Awards with hot pink hair having got rather drunk and a little enthusiastic the previous night and now Lady Gaga too! I wonder what inspired them to grab the pink hair dye…

Lady Gaga is a lace lovely for the cover feature of this month’s 944 magazine. Wrapped head to toe in lace she rocks pink curls with an all-white ensemble from Haus of Gaga, a Mouton Collet Crown and a Alex Noble mask. If this doesn’t inspire you to don some lace and rock a lolita or victoriana look I don’t know what will.

I was browsing fashion archives and came across this wonderful photo shoot of our favourite musician come fashion icon Gwen Stefani  featured in a dramatic spread for V magazine in  Spring 2008. As I wasn’t blogging back in Spring I missed the chance to talk about this when It was fresh, regardless I thought it was worthy of belated attention. The shoot which featured Ms Stefani eyebrow-less and cat like as well as bound and gagged has received mixed reviews. Perhaps the looks in the shoot are too much for some but the opinion here is fairly clean cut, we love it! Some of the shots are surely more to my taste than others so I’ve selected my top three for you to gaze at. Lovin’ the harlequin dress with the vertical shoes and about  ready to rush out and find the amazing hat that she sports with it. Granted that few can really work the invisible eyebrows look (I’m yet undecided on whether it really works in Marilyn Manson’s favour),  but drinking milk from the bowl has never looked so good. Note to self: must dig out that black lipstick.