Fluid

Hi everyone,

I haven't been able to stop thinking about fabric since the mention of this week's Illustration Friday topic. I waited a few days for something else to pop into my head, but Kate Moss has taken over.

Last summer, I traveled to New York to see the Alexander McQueen exhibit, Savage Beauty, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I remembered seeing some of his fashion shows on TV when I was younger. His show was always considered a major event during London Fashion Week. I figured the exhibit would be interesting, but I didn't imagine that the line to get in would wind through all other exhibits leading up to it.

Now, I get it! It was so worth the trip and the wait: I never expected to be so moved by seeing a bunch of clothing. And, apparently, it's all still in my head.

That's how my "Kate Moss (Mother) Kitty" showed up this week. (In her day, The Mother Kitty was the fairest of them all.) One of my favorite parts of the Savage Beauty exhibit was peering through a waist-high slot of a black wooden installation and discovering a hologram of Kate Moss floating in billowing fabric. Rather than strips of cloth, her dress looked like frothy clouds, trickling waterfalls, or fluid watercolors. Here's our salute to however he created that fantastic work of art.

The Mother Kitty makes a good Kate Moss stand-in and she knows it.

You can find on YouTube a version of the hologram against a plain black background, as it was at showcased at The Met, but here's the real thing: The finale of Alexander McQueen's 2006 Fall/Winter collection. Don't you wish you were there, marveling in person?

Credits: Illustration © Melissa Connolly; video © Alexander McQueen