Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Wiki Editing/Entrance-Alexander McQueen+ Donna Haraway=HaraQueen

   I found this wiki editing is sort of an extension of my first blog commenting from the previous one. Last comment I actually found something related to fashion- Alexander McQueen as using Cyborg in his design and fashion runway. Thus, this week's Wiki editing I am more focusing on how does McQueen use design as a translation of cyborg into his design and as a man in the fashion industry which he was famous known in designing female's clothing trend. 
   As I search more about McQueen's book and his works.  His talent was amazed me. He was committed suicide at his 40. I found two pieces of article and interviews at the MET ( Musuem of Metropolitan  Fine Art) held an exhibition about him - Savage Beauty. Those pieces of dress are like antique and art. It is very sad for such a loss in the fashion design to me. I found in the runway show back in the 1998 when he was first introduce and borrow the idea of Cyborg into the runway show, he was also putting his own identity in the Cyborg.  He admitted he was Gay at the age of 6. Also I found a very important research done by a PhD student in University of West Georgia, Jacob Glazier. He combined or related Alexander McQueen and Donna Haraway's idea of "feminism" connected together as come up with the term " HaraQueen" by combining both of their last names.  
( this is my post under "Alexander McQueen) 



( This is how PhD student  did the research about McQueen and Haraway as to combine both of their ideas of "Third-Wave" feminism together that Mcqueen fully presented "Cyborg" in his fashion runway since 1998. )

( " I am Paralysed" by McQueen, which I found similaity to Haraway's " I'd rather be Cyborg than a goddess" as it is referring to be a living organism) 


1 comment:

  1. The connections between Haraway and McQueen are certainly relevant to the class. Although you provide citations to sources, your additions were likely received as "original research," which is prohibited by Wikipedia. It would also be helpful to reference print sources rather than web pages.

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