The Queen of the Prints

Just yesterday, I bought the newest issue of Milk X. There’s one article inside the fashion show report that attracts my eye and fulfilled my curiosity – which is the ‘behind the scene’ of Alexander McQueen Spring 2010 prints. The extraordinary exquisite prints had shocked me and you have to believe this – the whole dress is made from just one piece of printed silk, there were no other prints or fabrication adding on it but with just one print! The following will explain it in details and the whole process from inspiration to the final piece walked on the McQueen runway.

The McQueen extreme pieces is just cutout just one piece of printed silk


The Final piece on the runway

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And it all began from here…

Inspiration board or mood board for the S/S 2010 / Different tryouts and small application on the paper body


Pictures of the potential images that can apply on the body (still an inspiration board)

After hundreds of tryouts and errors, the final prints is printed out

The last moment of busy cutting the dress and adding embroidery few hours before the show


Then finally Karlie rocks the runway

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There are more…

Amazing isn’t it?! This is an article wrote by Chinsky Cheung who did an internship in Alexander McQueen in 2009 and invited to do the third collection as an Design Assistant (Prints and Pattern Engineering).

Source: Info from Chinsky Cheung, scanned by me in Milk X, Fashion Shows Stills, Chinsky.com