Alexander McQueen

I saved the weirdest and wildest for last!  Alexander McQueen’s show is definitely weird and wild, with a panoply of sci-fi and fantasy imagery.  Based on the legend of Plato’s Atlantis, McQueen’s collection imagines humans returning to the ocean and re-adapting to the ecosystem.  It’s basically the premise behind Waterworld, but McQueen blows it out of the water with his awesomeness.  See the evidence after the break:

The patterns on McQueen’s dresses create a beautiful amalgam of human and animal, warm-blooded and cold-blooded.  The patterns were computer generated and digitally printed, and create gorgeous reptilian and insect-like “flesh” for the models:

Alexander McQueen's reptilian dresses

The shoes are out of this world, ranging from cloven hooves to full-on H. R. Giger.  My favorite pair looks like the model is stepping on a creature from Alien:

Queen Alien from Aliens and Alexander McQueen

As the show progresses, the hair and makeup becomes more and more alien.  The final models wear prosthetics to make them look truly extraterrestrial:

McQueen's alien makeup

Even though the show has many different influences and inspirations, it still manages to be a fresh take on an alien future, both frightful and awe-inspiring.  McQueen wins the top spot as my favorite fashion show of Spring 2010 for exhibiting how visually innovative and beautiful the science fiction and fantasy genres can be when mined for inspiration.  Hopefully geek will continue to be a major player in haute couture, and maybe even make today’s sci-fi tomorrow’s fashion!

See more of Alexander McQueen’s collection at style.com.

(All images of Alexander McQueen are property of style.com; images from Aliens distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.)