With iconoclast designer Alexander McQueen’s untimely passing, fashion has lost one of her favorite sons. While McQueen only flirted with repurposed and sustainable materials (cases in point, his trashion-esque Fall 2009 show and the organic cotton scarf he designed in support of Yann-Arthus Betrand’s Home), his mind was always making such daring, provocative leaps that we can only speculate how he would have reinvented himself next. He will be missed.
