Part of me wants to hate it just for the mere fact that it isn’t his designs. I still want to scream, shout and pound my fists until he has risen from the dead and designs us a line.

Sarah Burton was announced the new creative director of Alexander McQueen in May. About two weeks ago, previews of Pre-Spring/Cruise 2011 went viral.

Maybe I am being a bit negative, (that’s never happened before) but these designs aren’t what I would call amazing. Expected, yes. Japanese, kimono-styled, with a hint of samurai - didn’t he do this before? I would like to see the whole line and then an actual complete Spring/Summer line before I jump to more definitive and menacing adjectives. But I will predict this, the true lovers of McQueen will never embrace Sarah Burton even if she was his right hand woman. The true lovers will never embrace the Gucci corporation or their push to make him more of a household name from his death, aka a shit load of more money. As I have said before and I will say it again, he was a genius.


But as a woman who loves clothes, I do like the red gown.