Sarah Burton’s much-anticipated first full women’s collection for Alexander McQueen was inspired by samurai warriors, along with the work of 1930s anti-fascist dollmaker-Surrealist-photographer Hans Bellmer, according to New York Magazine. The bold, strong-shouldered warrior is evident in the clothing; I’m not so sure about the eroticized, dismembered doll influence, but any art the Nazis deemed degenerate is eternally relevant.
La Poupée, Hans Bellmer, 1936; Self-portrait, Hans Bellmer, 1930s
To see more:
McQueen's First Collection Without McQueen (Jezebel)
The Art of Hans Bellmer (ICP)
Surrealism: Hans Bellmer’s Mutilated Bodies (Junk for Code)
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