Intro to Fashion History Comic / Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow Highland Rape

 Issie Buys the Whole Thing.
Editor's Note: Isabella Blow actually buys his graduating collection "Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims" and not Highland Rape (his second collection) the former of which she paid for in £100 installations and he delivered to her each week an outfit in trash bags.

Tsk, tsk, tsk to me for drawing these before fact-checking. I revised the drawings with a new Jack the Ripper Stalks his Victims addition. Here's the original Highland Rape one below, I love how it turned out, with her tiny little feet.

But isn't it funny to think that Alexander McQueen was also once a student? I guess we all start somewhere. The Highland Rape collection was about British designers appropriating Scottish culture for their fashion collections. I could draw McQueen things allllll day, there's so much history and extraordinary cut clothes, it really is a moveable feast.

RIP Lee and Issie.

More Intro to Fashion History comics here.

Fashion History / Fuck Your War Rations, This is the New Look.

I was on the mini-bus home with my mom from the Maron Bouillie Paris Rétro exhibition in Olympian City and I was showing my mom these little comics that I've been loving lately and she was like YOU should make comics but I brushed it off like like what would I even draw about?

And then at 3 AM last night (that's when I get all my ideas, I keep a notebook beside my bed just for that purpose) I had this idea that I should draw comics about fashion history! I've always wanted to do a project about fashion history and this is perfect for it. So here is the first one from the still Untitled Fashion History Comic Project.

This first one is about Christian Dior's extravagant New Look in Post WWII Paris. Enjoy! \And let me know if you have any favourite moments in fashion history you want to see. Tweet me! Or comment below! xx