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don't be a dick. i worked with him at gucci group. i have nothing but respect for him. i think he was easily the most brilliant, talented designer working in fashion. an old boss once told me, "talent is a blessing and a curse" and i've always remembered those words.
Well try to come up with a more fitting eulogy then. That one sounded like the work of a 10-year-old with learning difficulties.
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Platini being a tit.....some things never change
Well done dick'ead, great thread to hijack
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Platini being a tit.....some things never change
Well done dick'ead, great thread to hijack
Am I not grieving properly, la?
No 'poems', flowers, shrines or Bebo 'tributes'?
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Here rests Platini
"Remembered by few, ignored by many, he thought his light burned so brightly that he spontaneously combusted whilst suffering a bout of hubris "
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Seems reasonable to ask why, given the stature of some of the people in the RIP thread, Alexander McQueen deserves a separate one all of his own? Not to doubt the sincerity of the people who have posted at all or to doubt that McQueen had talent, albeit in a milieu of greed, excess and exploitation but he was surely not so significant a figure as to warrant this.
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If it was down to the power of thought it wouldn't be spontaneous.
Must do (much) better...
and if it was spontaneous you wouldn't have thought about it first.
Must do (much much) better
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Seems reasonable to ask why, given the stature of some of the people in the RIP thread, Alexander McQueen deserves a separate one all of his own? Not to doubt the sincerity of the people who have posted at all or to doubt that McQueen had talent, albeit in a milieu of greed, excess and exploitation but he was surely not so significant a figure as to warrant this.
Not that i am overly fussed about his passing, but he was one of the most culturally relevant figures of the 90's/Noughties - whether his relevance is something you detest or admire is irrelevant, but the tone of your comment suggests that rather than celebrate a creative talent, you would rather use him as another excuse to bemoan all that you see as being wrong in society.
We should be thankful that his ilk still appear the radar, otherwise all we would be left with is Posh, Becks, and DJ Otzi
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That doesn't make sense.
Oh.
No - you just cant make sense of it, which in itself is probably something you cannot make sense of either, no doubt because you are unable to sense the nonsense you continually spout that you mistake for profound witticisms, which the rest of us see as the desperate attempts of a lonely man to justify any sort of meaningful contribution to a society which he feels alienated from by others, but in fact alienates him self from by having a false sense of his own intellect.
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Not that i am overly fussed about his passing, but he was one of the most culturally relevant figures of the 90's/Noughties - whether his relevance is something you detest or admire is irrelevant, but the tone of your comment suggests that rather than celebrate a creative talent, you would rather use him as another excuse to bemoan all that you see as being wrong in society.
We should be thankful that his ilk still appear the radar, otherwise all we would be left with is Posh, Becks, and DJ Otzi
Given the fact that in any given week you can read obituaries of 80-90-year-old war veterans, concentration camp survivors, politicians, statesmen and women, writers, poets and dramatists, I admit to feeling a little bit 'meh' about the fat cockerney tailor who couldn't even put an arse in his signature item...
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Not that i am overly fussed about his passing, but he was one of the most culturally relevant figures of the 90's/Noughties - whether his relevance is something you detest or admire is irrelevant, but the tone of your comment suggests that rather than celebrate a creative talent, you would rather use him as another excuse to bemoan all that you see as being wrong in society.
We should be thankful that his ilk still appear the radar, otherwise all we would be left with is Posh, Becks, and DJ Otzi
"Culturally relevant"? Maybe, whatever it means. But he made expensive clothes, that's all. I am afraid that to me, and I would suspect to all my friends, he was entirely irrelevant. Perhaps* we* are not culturally relevant? Or could it be that culture is a complex thing that, like it or not, includes people like Posh and Becks as well as people like James Nachtwey, John Pilger and Janine Di Giovanni who may well not feature on your radar but do on mine?
I did say that I didn't doubt his talent. But his talent expressed itself in a milieu that is renowned for it's vacuity and nastiness and I see no good reason why anyone should not point that out; this is not his funeral service, we are not writing eulogies. Whether or not someone admires his (alleged) relevance, given what he did for a living, also seems perfectly relevant. If you proclaim him as a figure of culture then it is only fair that he is debated as such even in his passing.
I feel the same for his family and friends as I do when I read a Rider Down thread or any of, as has been pointed out, the many other stories of sad and untimely deaths that fill the news each day. -
Exactly - he was one person who filled in the vast tapestry that is modern culture, whether or not that is relevant to you, me or anyone else in neither here nor there, it was relevant to a huge amount of people, and the trickle down of what he did into high street fashion and main stream design etc etc no doubt influenced many people without them even realizing it.
I am not interested in haute couture, but would be suprised if something in my wardrobe didn't have a bit of McQueen design DNA in it.
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Exactly - he was one person who filled in the vast tapestry that is modern culture, whether or not that is relevant to you, me or anyone else in neither here nor there, it was relevant to a huge amount of people, and the trickle down of what he did into high street fashion and main stream design etc etc no doubt influenced many people without them even realizing it.
I am not interested in haute couture, but would be suprised if something in my wardrobe didn't have a bit of McQueen design DNA in it.
Ah, the homeopathic approach.
It's highly thought of in certain circles, or so I'm told.
'The memory of innovation?'
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Alexander McQueen - London boy RIP
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very very sad... one of the greatest, no doubt.