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I was almost just really stoked. Everyday, I get a slew of fashion newsletters sent to my mail box, and lo and behold, the subject line in most of them reads something like “McQueen to Show in New York”. My first thought is, “WHAT!” Then I click on the pretty little bad news bearing link.

Yes, Alexander McQueen will be showing a collection in New York, but it won’t be during New York Fashion Week in the fall. It will be next Wednesday, March 26th, at Milk Studios. McQueen has decided to do an edited 20-piece fashion show of his Autumn/Winter 2008 collection. “Okay,” you think, “that sounds interesting,” and I’m sure it will be fun for the 120 clients and press who are invited.

I loved the A/W 2008 collection, and hate to say anything bad about Alexander McQueen because I think he’s a genius, but if you really think about it, the majority of the “clients and press” have already seen the show either first hand in Paris or over and over again as they flipped through the pictures of it. Iknow pictures aren’t the same as seeing the clothes first hand, but and “edited version” is the same as the entire collection either, so why would they want to go to an edited version of the same show, just to bask in the fantasia that is A. McQ?

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