Deep Sea Devotion: Alexander McQueens Manta Designs

By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director 422PM GMT fifteen March 2010

The late Alexander McQueens "Manta" dresses, have turn a luminary tribute.

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The clear dresses underline digitally-enhanced, mirror-image-style prints, imitative hulk manta rays, sea-serpents and alternative weird or illusory denizens of the deep, desirous by McQueens scuba-diving outing in The Maldives, last year.

Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, and Annabelle Neilson, McQueens troubadour and beloved friend, shaped a Manta Trio at the finish of the Campbells Fashion for Relief gift eventuality at Somerset House, during London Fashion Week in February. This overwhelming visible reverence to McQueen, the brightest conform star of his generation, echoed the supermodel loyalty at the finish of the identical eventuality in assist of Haiti, that Campbell had organized during New York Fashion Week, a integrate of days after the designers comfortless genocide by suicide, had been announced.

Most recently, the actress, Selma Hayek, who is tied together to Francois-Henri Pinault, the authority and CEO of PPR SA, that has a 51% interest in the Alexander McQueen label, by the tenure of Gucci Group, wore one of the dresses to the Vanity Fair and the Sir Elton John Aids Foundation Oscars parties in Hollywood.

The designers good friend, Daphne Guinness, was one of the initial to go manta-mode, in November, shortly after McQueens Platos Atlantis spring/summer pick up in Paris. A integrate of days later, Noor Seear chose one for The Twilight Saga New Moon" premiere, in Los Angeles. Lily Cole wore a Manta skirt for the premiere of The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, in Tokyo, on Jan 14th, and, a integrate of weeks later, so did Anna Paquin, for the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, in Los Angeles.

The Manta dresses have right away sole out in London, notwithstanding their cost tab in additional of �2,800.

But the McQueen D-Manta clutch-bag, that offers a tantalising, sharp glance of how the late designer"s mindfulness with Darwins speculation of expansion could be translated in to a settlement so evocative of his weird and pleasing imagination.

Available in a preference of colours, from �295,

www.alexandermcqueen.com ; 020 7355 0088.