Seeking a balance between insoluble contradictions, Alexander McQueen gave particular importance to symmetry, beauty, and harmony. It’s only natural than that his eponymous brand entrusted this capsule collection to British artist Damien Hirst. In these brand new scarves, Alexander McQueen’s couture house brings art to fashion by directly borrowing the motifs that adorn this artist’s work. The skull, already borrowed from Renaissance-era vanity paintings, is today meeting the work of Damien Hirst, famous for his platinum diamond-encrusted skull with human teeth. The brand and the artist share a common love for aesthetics that play with themes like nature, life, and death.
For this project, Damien Hirst took inspiration from Dante’s Divine Comedy, taking his motifs directly from the Entomology series. All in all, the 30-piece collection unites the skull motif with natural elements. On silk chiffon, pongee silk, twill, and cashmere scarves, nature becomes graphic when reality espouses the abstract. These vanities were conceived as a kaleidoscope motif. The Damien Hirst version combines butterflies, insects, and other creatures that form a skull in a pictorial feat of devilry. Particularly desirable: The Forgiveness Skull Butterfly Grid and The God Fearing Circular
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