;: Alexander McQueen humanised the Fashion Industry - who will bring humanity back to football?

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Alexander McQueen humanised the Fashion Industry - who will bring humanity back to football?

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Alexander McQueen was a fantastic fashion designer but not merely because he was so counter the industry in his designs but also as an individual, he was hardly representative of this tall supermodel, vacuous world. He gave the industry personality and character because he came across as an everyday individual and because of that, what stood out was this talent to make great clothes.

But he was still part of this industry that is superficial at best. Even for me, McQueen was still part of high fashion and then, he committed suicide.

Now... it was a very very sad event. It was unfortunate to lose somebody with great talent. Imagine if we lost, Henry, Zidane, Ronaldo at their prime - they just disappeared from the world and couldn't contribute anymore. How would that feel.

Then again, Zidane, Henry and Ronaldo have always remained part of the world of football.

When I heard the news, I felt the same way I did when Brittany Murphy left. Brittany Murphy's career spanned across animation, music, different genres of film and she was relatively unknown to the masses. She was only known by people who watched films on the films they enjoyed watching. For instance, people who likes teenager led movies or comedies remembered her for clueless, the average teenage boy or man remember her for 300, while those who enjoy drama remember her for Girl, interrupted and if you like hip hop or urban music you will remember her alongside Eminem in 8 Mile.

I think you get the point I am making here. She was versatile. She also had a part playing a recurring character in the animated comedy King of the hill too as well as singing on a massive dance anthem with Paul Oakenfold.

This is a legend but unless she got that Hollywood A rating, you wouldn't have known her, ever.

In the case of the fashion industry, Alexander McQueen's death made me realise how much humanity and reality exist for each individual in the world. Regardless of where you are and what you do, you could be a real sh*t, a grade A murderer or the best person in the world - your time on this planet is limited and you'll burn out. For some that burn may escalate unknowingly and that human-ness, regardless of who you are will explode out of nowhere.

In football, there is this nastiness, like in Fashion, where your image, what you can do with money is brutally evident from millions of adoring masses who travel for miles and invest years emotionally into something which is nothing at all. Managers and players invest this time in an industry if broken from the shackles of capitalism could feed the hungry, cure cancer, aid the elderly and revitalise education. All those billions floating around in football could make the world a better place - imagine if all that money was invested into real human causes instead of gratuitous pleasure.

All this talk in football about charity, to give an image of humanity, when we actually give a fraction of our time in charity, a fraction of the money to charity while the rest is spent on fuelling rivalry, division and superficial joy.

Once it was a celebration of your home, where you live, who you are. Once football was about the abode and the community that you share your existence with but now fans love teams miles and miles away. If you've ever been to Manchester you'll realise the are around Stretford and Salford isn't all that fantastic unless you love history, architecture and working class culture. Around Islington it isn't all that fantastic either unless you want to spend an evening marvelling at the cross-section of culture it has invited to the area.

Are all Arsenal fans cultural connoisseurs? No.

Tragedy brings some interesting facets of humanity to the forefront for an industry. Will fashion houses/designers now begin to use models of all sizes? Will we see a revamp of the pricing and some innovative steps towards clothings for the masses instead of choice artificial cultures of the unknown few? I know this has all changed for me. I like fashion but I've always known you don't have to spend big in fashion - maybe this will make the label hoggers think twice when buying fashion?

I doubt it.

In football, I would expect Arsenal to just change and think about their pricing. Practice what they preach. Maybe go to the RBS and say they will pay an interest rate on the loan that doesn't hit the tax payer as hard as the negotiation they made does. We could, hopefully get the truth.

Then again, nobody cares about death anymore. Everybody in the world is looking out for number one - nothing changes, because nobody cares, unless a team loses or wins.

How dreadful.