Alexander McQueen - Plato’s Atlantis
Trust McQueen to come up with this. His Atlantis-inspired 2010 Spring Collection is an inquisitive peek into the alternative side of the world - one where submerged reptilian people strut in embellished claw booties and jelly-boxy volumed dresses that grew on them like second skin.
Encompassing the thought that one day people would morph into such creatures (which isn’t entirely impossible if you believe in your Darwin), the geometry balance of reptilian prints McQueen pulled together was truly bravissimo. Together with the believable nautilus-shell intricacy of plaits/ braids and infinite ‘ocean depth’ of the runway (as set by the sliding camera), it’s hard to tell apart the difficulties of walking in those booties from deliberate role-playing.
