On McQueen

Five years ago, when the world lost Lee McQueen, it lost a visionary. People in fashion love to go on about how they teared up watching a show, about how moving a designer’s work was, and how it all spoke to them on a profound level. I’ve only ever felt that way once, when I came across McQueen’s work.

I wish I could write something profound and insightful about this — even more so when it’s one in the morning and I’m fervently browsing YouTube for some McQueen video I’ve yet to watch repeatedly — but I can’t. It takes an incredibly skilled mind to accurately convey the genius — the brilliance — of a man like McQueen.

Instead, a selection of the late designer’s work to admire, and to remind you that the world will never see anyone as creatively talented as Lee McQueen.